Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice items in the exhibition is an inscribed first edition of Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque." Poe's poverty was such that it prevented his giving away many of his books, and these two volumes are among the few known copies presented by him to other people. Bound specially for the purpose, they are inscribed "For Miss Anna and Miss Bessie Pedder, from their most sincere friend, the Author...
...becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy in Prague. Dispelling U. S. qualms, their marriage looms...
...faces walked out of the door. Policemen with wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...
Balloons. All studios making sound pictures were being equipped last week with red captive balloons which, wavering above production lots, will notify aviators to keep their droning engines at least 2,500 ft. away...
...behind." It had a familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered-and both his poem and the beauty of the day were blown away in a particularly nauseous blast form the abattoir. The moral being that there are disadvantages as well as gains in vagabonding...