Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BITTER GLORY-Leon Thornber-Fur-man ($2.50). Heavily romanticized version of the free-love life of fragile Chopin and trousered, vigorous George Sand...
...back and I will carry you all over Russia." McKay had a friendly talk with Trotsky, who gave him a free pass to look at the Red Army and Navy...
Editor Snow admits his translations are very free, admits also that he has freely used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
ROAD MY BODY GOES-Clifford Gessler -Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50). A tourist-free island of the South Seas described by a Honolulu newspaperman who spent a picturesque three months there, warns his readers away by saying the mosquitoes reek with elephantiasis germs...
Last year 40 books were permanently lost from the Reading Room as compared with the average annual loss of 350 before the turnstile went in. The problem of book control is particularly difficult in Widener because of the large numbers allowed free access to the actual shelves. Pointing out that fully 1000 persons have entry to the stack, Briggs stated that no other library in the world of comparable size has such a free system...