Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apart from war casualties in 1942, the following went to their deaths: Historian Guglielmo Ferrero; French journalist and political theorist Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales (The Making of Tomorrow); Poet William Alexander Percy, whose prose work Lanterns on the Levee was one of 1941's most substantial contributions to American letters; Poet Alan Porter; dog-lover Albert Payson Terhune; popular Novelists Rachel Field, Alice Hegan Rice, Alice Duer Miller (The White Cliffs...
...have a pet theory too, and you can take it or leave it. The trouble with war drama, to put it somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff...
Here Phillips Brooks House steps in every year, with its old clothes drive, aimed at the comfort of as many as can be helped by the discarded suits, clothes, sweaters of Harvard men. Apart from the general sentiment, the clothes are genuinely appreciated, especially during a winter when fuel oil will be rationed. Thus, helping the old clothes drive, either by donating or soliciting, is a contribution to the welfare of the Community surrounding the College...
...other target was one of the three remaining merchantmen, still outside the harbor. Coastal batteries lobbed shells at him, naval craft chased him as he ploughed off in pursuit of her. He submerged and let her have two torpedoes. "She sort of fell apart...
Said petite Chinese Fan-Dancer Noel Toy ruefully: "When I am dancing, the fans fly apart. I cannot help that." Said Miss Hart: "I have never done a bump or a grind in my life." Said Miss Toy: "Neither have I. It's vulgar." Added Miss Hart: "I slink...