Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BRAWNYMAN - James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). The satisfying quality of this autobiogaphical chunk of Americana is that calm matter-of-factness which characterized the same author's chronicle of the great logger, Paul Bunyan. "Appanoose Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., and, though he contributes successfully to the American Mercury, he has not yet succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that...
...villages refugee gentry told: "Before we knew it the explosion came and blew out our windows. Glass cut me, and my wife's face was crimson with cuts. . . . Our baby was knocked to the floor and killed by a falling chunk of wood. . . . My son has lost his sight, my daughter was lacerated. . . . Blood was pouring from a dozen wounds in my back made by small pieces of shrapnel...
Stale patterns of the kindergarten executed in raw colors by pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black...
Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors...
...cold waters of the Charles closed over the bodies of eight crew men and a coxswain yesterday. But the men quickly rose, reached shore, and set out for the Newell boathouse, while Coach Stevens took charge of the shell, which had been stove in by a stray chunk...