Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John L. Lewis is supposed to have jested: "Why shouldn't he belong to the musicians' union? Didn't Nero fiddle while Rome burned...
During the last four years a wealthy, 56-year-old grandmother, living in the peaceful seclusion of her New Mexican ranch, has published three books that belong with the most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies. Creator of these solemnly indiscreet records is Mabel Dodge Luhan, patroness of art, friend of D. H. Lawrence and of other literary great, wife of a Taos Indian whose folkways she recounted in Winter in Taos. The scandalous books are the successive volumes of her Intimate Memories. This is a long manuscript, about which lurid literary legends are steadily accumulating. It now reposes in the safe...
...Strikers in almost every port refused to talk to newshawks who did not belong to the Newspaper Guild...
...ancient man. The "Minnesota Maid&" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1932), first dated at 20,000 years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman...
...attend. The club proposes to study the recently formulated language which is advocated as a vehicle for diplomacy and cementing international ties. The language is a combination and simplification of elements of many tongues including English, German, French, Spanish, and Folish. Already over a million people are said to belong to the movement and are able to converse in the language...