Word: brickyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty...
...last week published Fish on the Steeple, a rowdy, hilarious novel that captured the flavor of life in the small hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings in the college paper. Tall, bushy-haired, expressing himself...
...Klux Klan, a large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable...
...place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair in which the Crown Governor once sat, smiled at an inscription above an arch in the south wall of the piazza: "Her Majesty Queen Anne Her Royall Capitol." A reception and luncheon given by Mr. Rockefeller and a Legislative tour of restored private homes and public...
...Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession to friends, does not like the theatre, hates formal entertaining. But he never misses a good prizefight. At stag parties his songs start early...