Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accompanied Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret to Constitution Hall for a concert by the Don Cossack Chorus (whose members had been carefully investigated by the Secret Service and duly pronounced White Russians). The President slipped out before the intermission, went to the Statler Hotel to address a savings bond rally. As he left for the concert again he said: "I've got to escort them [Mrs. Truman and Margaret] home. What I mean is, I have to escort them to the White House. There's a decided distinction and a difference...
...aide, K. C. Adams, worked over his chewing tobacco and spat copiously into a spittoon as Lewis waved a copy of last year's contract. "We have the bond," John thundered. "Do we get the ducats?" This week, a little ahead of time, his miners began to walk...
...Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...
Polly Seliger's "The Bond" is not so effective, yet its complete sincerity breaks through the fumbling descriptions and little awkwardness. The bend is between a mother and her small girl, and the story is refreshing in its lack of any sort of artifice and in its genuine communication of the child's knowledge that she is loved. Miss Seliger makes the mistake in marring the directness of her story by a final twist, but even that might be excused on the grounds that it is the child's realization that she will never again to be loved so completely...
...other two stories are also about childhood; they are more complex and less forceful that "The Bond," but they are both written with conviction, if with little prospect of being sold to Glamour Magazine. Norman Zierold's essays, "A Critique of Freud," tries to be witty, but without success. It is a parody of Freud, that shows only ignorance and a distasteful sense of humor. Aune Tolstol's poem, "A Penny for the Blind Man," is the only one in the magazine. It is a poem that seems uncontrived, yet the simplicity is finely formed, and the verses give...