Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received from nature for nothing, plebeians acquire at the cost of their youth." James Farrell, a self-conscious plebeian -who has already estimated the cost of youth in the hundreds of thousands of words of his Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O'Neill tetralogy - quotes this remark of Anton Chekhov's at the beginning of Bernard Clare. It is the first of a new series of novels about a young. Chicago-Irish plebeian who fights against odds to make himself into a novelist...
High Prosperity. These busy mountaineers had repaired their railroads, got their hydro-electric power output back to 94% of prewar capacity, the lumber industry to 72%, textiles to 65%, building bricks to 50%. Farmers had discovered that bomb craters were good spots to store manure. Said 68-year-old Anton Halmer: "I never had time to dig a hole deep enough until you fellows did the job for me in a couple of minutes." Inns-bruckers, whose official ration is 1,250 calories a day, looked well-fed and prosperous. Many a middle-class woman looked as though...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...
Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook; TIME, April...
...General [Anton] Dostler was sentenced to death [TIME, Oct. 22] because he had ordered 15 O.S.S. men shot who were caught when trying to blow up a tunnel between Genoa and La Spezia. Surely every American found the verdict satisfactory...