Word: aire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequently published a signed sworn statement of violations of this and similar ordinances by other persons but the police simply denied the truth of my charges and refused to act. Your correspondent states with a grieved air that the pamphlets I distributed contained no radical phraseology. True enough. What they did state was that as long as American workers continued to elect to office the nominees of the Capitalist owners of the Republican and Democratic parties, laws would be passed inimical to the working class and that in the administration of existing laws the working class would be discriminated against...
...true monument? . . . A picture comes to my mind of 1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...
...right weather for husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when...
Thunder in the Air. The ghost of a British soldier returns after ten years to twist the hearts of his parents and one-time fiancee. This spectral drama by Robins Millar, Glasgow journalist, may interest adherents of spiritualism; earthier critics may yawn...
...that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...