nineteen-thirty

Updated: May 4, 2025

Anyway, I had to have plans.... When they came from Chicago, I shoved the date of building ahead to Nineteen-Thirty, and turned with a sigh to the typewriter.... Several days afterward there was a tap at the study door in the drowsiest part of the afternoon. A contractor and his friend, the lumberman, were interested to know if I contemplated building.

Will Levington Comfort - Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation