Nineteen NineteenConstable, 1932 - 462 pages Together with "The Big Money" and "The Forty Second Parallel" forms author's "U.S.A." trilogy which provides a collective portrait of America following dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the beginning of the Depression |
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Page 70
... mother and Henry feeling hungry and wondering all the way if they were going to have fried chicken for dinner . They were all three stepping up onto the stoop , Mother leaning a little on Dick's arm and the purple and green poppies on ...
... mother and Henry feeling hungry and wondering all the way if they were going to have fried chicken for dinner . They were all three stepping up onto the stoop , Mother leaning a little on Dick's arm and the purple and green poppies on ...
Page 71
... Mother'll smell it on you . " " Don't give a damn if she does . " When they got home Aunt Beatrice met them at the front door looking sore as a crab and told them to go down to the basement . Mother wanted to see them . The back stairs ...
... Mother'll smell it on you . " " Don't give a damn if she does . " When they got home Aunt Beatrice met them at the front door looking sore as a crab and told them to go down to the basement . Mother wanted to see them . The back stairs ...
Page 337
... mother was going to make out . All Ned was complaining about was wartime prohibition . They were both a little jumpy from all the cognac they'd drunk on the trip over . They were already in the slategreen shallow seas off Long Island ...
... mother was going to make out . All Ned was complaining about was wartime prohibition . They were both a little jumpy from all the cognac they'd drunk on the trip over . They were already in the slategreen shallow seas off Long Island ...
Contents
Oh the infantree the infantree | 1 |
JOE WILLIAMS | 3 |
The Camera Eye 28 when the telegram came | 8 |
Copyright | |
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Adelaide afternoon American Anne Elizabeth asked Aunt Beatrice Bay Head began blue boat café Cap'n Perry cognac cold Colonel damn dark Daughter Dick Don Stevens door drink drunk Eleanor Eveline everything eyes face feel feet fellow felt Freddy French funny Genoa girl goddam gotten grey hair hand he'd head hell Hilda Hutchins Jack Reed Joe Williams kissed knew laughed limey looked Mademoiselle from Armentières Miss morning mother name was Jones nice night panama hat Paris Paul pretty rain Red Cross Sally Emerson Scollay Square ship shook sleep smell smelt smile sore started stood street suddenly talking taxicab tell thing thought told took town uniform voice waiting walked wanted Wesley Everest Wilson wine woman yelled young