Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parts and analyzed; it is a mere whim of mankind. Virgil laboring under the burden of a dead language and writing of things long since forgotten has generally been dismissed from modern thought, yet he left behind him one of the world's greatest epics, he wrote learnedly on bee keeping or politics, and he was a master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born. In a few weeks this perfunctory homage will be laid away for another thousand years. The value of this sporadic praise...
...develops that "Doggie" (Donald MacDonald), the proprietor of a Bronx beer flat, and Bee (Sylvia Field) are living together only until Doggie's consumptive wife dies. After that Doggie has promised to make Bee "legitimate," a condition which she cherishes. But Doggie has a weakness for poker, a game at which he is invariably unsuccessful, so he and Bee are about to be ejected from their apartment. At this point appears "Curly," a bigtime horse race bookmaker. He volunteers to give Doggie and Bee lodgings which he and his associates use as a "phone room" (place to receive bets) during...
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...Manhattan, Emil Sternart, just returned from the country, was painfully stung by a bee while riding in the subway...
...pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...