Word: carded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children, says Mrs. Chaplin, should not be cursed with "Christmas card angels and depictions of an effeminate Jesus in a long, white nightgown. The simplicity of the old masters-for example. . . Fra Angelico-are loved by most children if they have not had the overdose of sentimental pictures beforehand...
...material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable book...
...indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden had declared it an "overt act," and had refused to communicate with...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
...left, his wife arrived from Athens, expecting to join him for a short trip into Macedonia. She found his typewriter and other equipment in his room; that ruled out the theory that he had already gone on his mission to Markos. The same day, police got his identity card in the mail...