Mendel's Children : A Family Chronicle

From the viewpoint of many of the locals, the entertainment highlight of each week was the sight of drunken "squaws," as they were commonly called, fighting each other in the middle of Main Street. [...] By the end of 1932, with the support of a majority on the town council (which by this time rep- resented interests beyond the congregations of the local United and Anglican Churches), he was able to open his own government-approved hospital at the corner of Second Street and Fifth Avenue, rather grandly naming it the King Edward (not to be confused with the King George, which was the local hotel a [...] As a young woman, she dressed in the latest flapper fashion, knew how to dance the Charleston and the Black Bottom, and played the piano well enough to be in demand as an accompanist for the silent movies which were shown at the Pelly town hall to packed audiences. [...] THE FINN FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH 11 When Nicholas I resolved to compel the Jews to assimilate, his first step was to enforce a quota of boys and young men from the ages of twelve to eighteen to serve in the army for twenty-five years. [...] Survivors of these attacks told of pregnant women sliced open, of young girls raped and butch- ered, of babies torn to pieces and tossed into the streets in front of their par- ents, of children being thrown into wells and drowned in rivers, of homes and shops stripped of their every valuable possession, of whole villages put to the torch and of men being tossed alive into the flames.