Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this day and age when women and children are ruthlessly slaughtered in the streets by death-dealing bombs and the poisonous gases, and when the world is racked by the blind passions of men stirred to mad frenzy by demagogues of Fascism and Comunionism, there is a great need for sound thinking, and intelligent application of Christian ideals. If these lecturers can give us a practical slant on the solutions of the problems of today, they will have been extremely valuable...
...exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account of measles with tape-worm complications, starving him almost to death and then making him play dead besides, all because nobody has any money and it wouldn't do to be thrown out of the hotel. One of the most startling revelations in the art of welching is the way in which the troop of them prepares to give the hotel...
...Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished she had left him there...
LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER AND OTHER POEMS-Federico Garcia Lorca-English translation by A. L. Lloyd-Oxford University Press...
...Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with the original Spanish...