Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers at the main gate, where the siren was screaming, had received their ultimatum, a soiled paper across which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
...Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
...violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
...veteran can give to history an occasional genuine first hand touch that is lacking to the general historian, but his comprehension of the greater movements in which he took part is generally slim. And so it seems here that Mr. Morris' interpretation of Whitman is of an elementary nature not to be ranked along side that of younger critics who have been close to their subject only in spirit...