Word: tumbledown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...task of George Ross Leighton in Five Cities is to restore the old landmarks which civic pride generally conceals. In his book tumbledown factories are landmarks, as well as the homes of the great. His heroes include failures as well as successes, suicides, people who bet on the wrong real estate developments, bankers whose banks have never reopened. He pictures...
Lately Satevepost readers have been following his new serial, Wickford Point. It traces some 30 years in the history of the scatterbrained, snobbish, tumbledown New England Brills, from Great-Aunt Sarah, who had known the Transcendentalists, to sophisticated daughter Bella, beautiful, jaded, unhappy, to whom men were drawn as sightseers were drawn to the shrine of stuffed-shirt Poet John Brill, "the Wickford Sage...
Died. Nina Van Zandt Spies 74, "proxy wife" of August Spies, one of the four radicals hanged for agitating Chicago's fatal Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 of a heart attack, in her tumbledown Chicago boardinghouse. A beauteous Vassar graduate and social worker she met Spies in jail, married him in absentia by going through a ceremony with Henry Spies, the prisoner's brother...
Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...because he did not appreciate Punch. (He had served all through the War under his family name, Hueffer-his father was German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising vegetables. He acquired a goat, a drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself...