Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarked among other sweet nothings that he had to be in every night at 7.45 o'clock, and that this would make things awfully difficult. Our experience over the last several weeks would tend to bear this out, and we might add that he doesn't know the half...
...peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks to the driving of the London busses, we could abolish the long waiting in queues. We should effect a real conservation of human energy...
...Army musicians creaked with suppressed fury. One old Sousaphile, Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, most famous of present-day U.S. concert bandleaders, rose to denounce this outrage. Said he: "Personally I think it's a disgrace! There isn't any excuse for it. Perhaps they think they can add more dash and appeal. But no one can improve on a Sousa march...
...picturesque ruin." Behind Harold Stearns, in America, lay the broken promise of a brilliant career-essays in The New Republic, editorship of The Dial, prime mover of the famous iconoclastic symposium Civilization in the United States. To the ruin of his career, Expatriate Stearns seemed anxious to add the ruin of himself. The news of his death caused friends to remember the days when, as he confessed in his autobiographical The Street I Know, he made a career of drink and an occupation out of borrowing money. Remembering the stir caused by his symposium, viper-tongued critics would say: "There...
Many realists among Republican exiles felt certain that the time was far from ripe for practical action. London and Washington still stood on good diplomatic terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring to pass Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto's modest proposal: that the Spanish people, in accordance with the Atlantic Charter, be allowed freely to elect their own government...