Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notes & Bars. In San Quentin, Calif., Warden Clinton Duffy, hoping to keep the boys happy with a disc jockey program broadcast over the prison public address system, named among available selections: Time on My Hands, They Didn't Believe Me, Till the End of Time, I'd Do...
Far from Lake Success, another Soviet-trained theoretician-Bulgaria's heavy-lidded Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov -explained how this doctrine worked in applied Bulgarian politics. Said Dimitrov (in a busy week in which his government ousted 23 more opposition deputies): "We will have peace and tranquillity for creative labor...
In Bulgaria (see above) and elsewhere, there might be tranquillity of a sort, even behind iron bars. But did much of the world want to be calm on such terms? In the free world, many men, trying to get the issues straight in their minds, were attempting definitions. None put...
"There's an arcade in Naples that they call the Gallería Umberto Primo. It's a cross between a railroad station and a church. You think you're in a museum till you see the bars and the shops. Once this Gallería had...
Bawdiest city: Butte ("with the possible exception of Amarillo, Texas"). "Whole neighborhoods [in Butte] are moldy, whole streets are rotten and decaying. The bars are preposterous and prodigious. I saw grandmothers teaching six-year-old kids to play slot machines."