Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down, are at his bedside. They separate, Bianca...
...small sum of 25? per month, are eligible for the following service: Semi Half Couch Casket and Box. Embalming, Robe and Hearse Service anywhere in the State of Mississippi. . . . We are in a position to have four funerals a day, with each 200 miles apart, and have each of them at the same hour...
...persuaded by militant Flemish Nationalists to introduce and rush through the Belgian Chamber just before he sailed a most controversial Amnesty Bill. This bill goes back to early days of the World War, when many Flemist Nationalists, eager at all times to set up Flanders as an independent country apart from Belgium, were duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their separation. They consequently gave much aid and comfort in Flanders to the invading German Army. For such acts of "treachery" many of King Albert's Flemish subjects were condemned to varying prison terms and many, when they...
That compensation for invalidism may have its drawbacks was suggested by 139 nurses of Los Angeles last week. They had contracted infantile paralysis nursing in the 1935 epidemic. They had been awarded $40 to $90 a month as compensation. In California such income sets them apart from the horde of indigents and makes them ineligible for free medical care. Unable to pay for both living and medical expenses, the 139 crippled nurses asked a Los Angeles grand jury for help. Powerless to do anything more concrete, the grand jury amplified and echoed the appeal in hopes of getting California...
NOTHING Is SAFE-E. M. Delafield- Harper ($2.50). The problems of a hypersensitive boy and his robust sister in a post-divorce world. Readers in search of a better buy may read Margaret Kennedy's Together and Apart...