Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie: "It means that the Federal Administration can continue its present policy of making outright gifts to municipalities with which to duplicate the distribution system of existing utilities. Of course no utility company can successfully compete with a municipal plant built with free money...
What chiefly turned him against Stalin, Barmine indicated, was "the systematic method with which Stalin has exterminated all those who were Lenin's associates, all those who helped make the revolution, all those who have built up Russia during the last twenty years...
...with the rustic humors of the play (and with the Mercury Theatre's economical practice), the stage setting is built of unfinished boards against a backdrop of homespun. Without any intermission, the action overflows between three small inner stages and out into the audience on the forestage. The Shoemakers' Holiday looks and sounds like spontaneous revelry, but it represents the hard work of a talented new group whose ambitions are neither political nor esthetic but, in the word's best sense, theatrical...
...poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most jerry-built, C. Day Lewis; most prosy and homeliest, Louis MacNeice...
...photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...