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...rocky peninsula and the hub of a 200-sq.-mi. staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across...
Last week Lillian Smith, in the October issue of Progressive Education, reported verbatim a typical seminar. Miss Lil (as the pupils call her) is relaxed on the greensward, spinning an allegory. Her girls are gathered around...
...Once upon a time," says Miss Lil, "each of us was born. We came out of our mother's body after living with her for nine months...
...inaccessible outposts as Moose Pass, he charges as high as $25 a job. Many of the pianos he tunes are elegant relics of the Gold Rush. At Petersburg he recently ministered to a massive old model that had made music in '98 for Klondike Kate and Diamond Tooth Lil...
...character's name was "Lil Thin Dyme" or "Doleful Dogie," Sample line: "Ole Taxes Drainger, he done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...