Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When no power boat met him he paddled a quarter of a mile in a collapsible rubber boat to little St. Gildas Island to visit his friend and colleague, Dr. Alexis Carrel...
...painted, owned their own slaves. After the Civil War they had to sell out piecemeal to the present owners and antique-hunters, became sharecroppers. But they held on to their aristocratic traditions. To ward off outsiders, they married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking and Catholic, the 2,000 mulattoes on Cane River's "Yucca" plantation now share little in common with Negroes except their work and their social position in Southern white society...
...minutes before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should...
...homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart from the dining room, later spreading to France, Italy and Spain. PETER BORR...
...Quite apart from these external matters the canvas contains within itself a wealth of interest in color and design and painter's craftsmanship. The yellowish pink of the coat, subtly blended, carries enough red to harmonize with the man's ruddy face and brown hair. The white of the neck-cloth, dotted with red, arbitrates between...