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“Outside, the sweet smell of freshly cut alfalfa hay was a welcome change from the odours of sweat and cheap cologne on the dance floor.”

Book:Lilacs in the Dust Bowl

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“I was sharp and thin, a bone-faced girl like all the other bone-faced girls they printed in magazines: Here is the Great Depression. Color of dust; pale brown hair and drab, blue-gray eyes. Color of the sky on days when bad things are about to happen. Color of droughts and heat and withering things.”

Great Depression

Book:Holler

Source: Holler

“Many cherished plans have failed. Not only radio and telephone, but running water in the house, furnace heat, modern lighting and refrigeration, have all passed beyond our dreaming. Even the three-cent postage is a burden.”

Great Depression

Book:Letters from the Dust Bowl

Source: Letters from the Dust Bowl

“The longing for rain has become almost an obsession. We remember the gentle all-night rains that used to make a grateful music on the shingles close above our heads... But we waken to another day of wind and dust and hopes deferred, of attempts to use to the utmost every small resource, to care for the stock and poultry as well as we can with our scanty supplies, to keep our balance and to trust that upon some happier day our wage may even yet come in.”

Great Depression

Book:Letters from the Dust Bowl

Source: Letters from the Dust Bowl

“And Tracy was young, just twenty, still wet behind the ears, and the old blinders were on him so he couldn't really see what was around and he believed the bull about freedomofopportunity and a chancetorise and ifyoureallywanttoworkyoucanalwaysfindajob and ruggedindividualism and something about pursuitofhappiness.”

Capitalism Labor Great Depression Industrialization Factory

Author:Tillie Olsen

“Full-blooded democracy still remains a brave new experiment, the history of ancient Athens notwithstanding. It would be unwise to assume that its victory across the globe is inevitable, for democracy is not always a simple mode of governing. It is almost forgotten that one reason why in this century the world stood three times on the verge of chaos — during two world wars and one world depression — was that the leading democracies were almost as prone to accidents and blunders as were their authoritarian rivals.”

Democracy Great Depression World Wars

Book:In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century

Source: In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century

“(but) for many in the city, the name Hoover had become a term of abuse. Hoover blankets were the sheets of old newspapers that the homeless wrapped themselves in to keep warm, Hoover leather was the cardboard they used to cover the holes in the soles of their shoes, and Hoover flags were their empty pants pockets turned inside out— the visible proof of their destitution as they held out their hands for alms. And at night they slept in Hoovervilles— shantytowns made of cardboard, tin, and scraps of broken wood.”

New York City Manhattan Great Depression 1929 2008 Depression2 0 President Hoover

Book:The Palace at the End of the Sea

Source: The Palace at the End of the Sea

“No screaming of shells, no thunder of guns, only this close, hard pressure of human bodies, this desperate push of starving men.”

Hunger Starvation Great Depression 1930s Glasgow Clydeside Hunger March

Book:Makeshift & Hunger March: Two Novels

Source: Makeshift & Hunger March: Two Novels

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and groups of men, workless, watching in silence the bitter passage of the vessel.”

Unemployed Great Depression 1930s Clydeside Shipbuilding

Book:The Shipbuilders

Source: The Shipbuilders

“Heaven must be like this, a place where no one laughed at you or touched you in a way that hurt, a place where you could share an egg cream with a friend.”

Inspirational Romance Historical Suspense Coming Of Age World War Ii Great Depression Retellings Award Winning Southern Literature

Book:Janice Everet: a southern gothic Jane Eyre retelling

Source: Janice Everet: a southern gothic Jane Eyre retelling

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