Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person's mind will instantly register such adjectives as "handsome," "slick," "swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough...
...Western farmer & wife, Christopher Morley wrote: "In those sad and fanatical faces may be read much, both of what is Right and what is Wrong with America." Most lowans saw on the canvas only the hard, exact details of Iowa. They were flattered that Iowa's boy chose to paint Iowa...
...when she appeared before an international Socialist gathering. A pacifist, she was imprisoned for 14 months during the War under the Espionage Act. In founding Commonwealth College. Dr. Zeuch and Mrs. O'Hare espoused no one dogma. Their "Commoners" might be Laborites, Liberals, Communists. Socialists, Single Taxers, anything they chose so long as they would work for their keep...
...with only one more volume to do. So pleased had critics been by his translation that Publishers Chatto & Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober, with occasional Ph. D. irruptions into footnotes...
...lady. Both of them had a terrible time but pretended to each other that everything was perfect. When little Jenny Blair, daughter of her old friend the General, began to grow up and be attractive to George, he manfully resisted temptation as long as he could. Jenny Blair chose an unfortunate moment to throw herself into George's arms. Mrs. Birdsong saw them; for once her lacquer cracked. The result was shattering for George, disastrous for George's overworked ideal...