Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that many returned fighting men wonder why good news is all the news given out to American people (TIME, March 1). So do we! It is true that the American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled kids, but that is the way we are being treated. We are pampered patriots. We are getting a few drops of castor oil in a cup full of political honey...
...Ministry decree, and city prices, created a blooming black market. By last week flower prices in London were: tulips, $6 a dozen; carnations, $8 a dozen up; violets, once 10? a bunch, now 60?; daffodils up to $2.50 a small bunch. A pussywillow, once given free to a good buyer, now costs...
...paper for them; he added that he had sold 5,000 copies of Dragon's Teeth in Glasgow, and that, knowing the citizens, he considered phenomenal. World's End has been out for a year in Sweden, and the publisher, Axel Holmstrom, has just airmailed me a bunch of clippings, all expressing delight with the book. My American publisher, Ben Huebsch, writes me: "Those Swedish reviews are excellent, coming from a people who are not demonstrative and who take their literature seriously...
...protests of Congressmen against the expansion planned by the armed forces still popped and sizzled like a bunch of wet firecrackers. This week the U.S. public heard the other side in some detail. The case of the Army and Navy for a combined force of 11,100,000 armed men (and women auxiliaries) by the end of 1944 was presented in a report to Congress by 75-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island...
...Japs seized several U.S. films in Batavia. One was Charlie Chaplin's satire on Hitler, The Great Dictator, which they showed "four or five times for a bunch of Japanese officers and they all had a big laugh out of it." Their favorite picture was 1,000,000 B.C. ("It showed the white man in a rather low state of life. They sit tearing at bones and acting like animals...