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Stuff & Nonsense. David concluded that Mary had "an impulsive urge" to run the company, was trying to harass him into selling back his stock. Nonsense, cried Mary. In the first place, David's permanent ownership in the stock was contingent on his delivering all ten of the pictures he had contracted for; if he delivered a minimum of five, he could resell his stock to U.A. at an "equitable" price; if he delivered less than five, as was now the case, he had no rights in the stock at all. Despite David's claims to have bought...
Something was obviously wrong with the machine. New York's anti-Communist Liberal Party, veterans' groups, old-line, anti-Tammany Democrats, and independent voters began to harass Marc and talk up a new deal for East H:1 cm. To help them along, Candidate Bryan invaded the grimiest corners of Marcantonio's dead end with an oldfashioned, no-quarter campaign. Patronage or no patronage, Marcantonio would have to hustle...
Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...
Nevertheless, textilemen expected shortages to harass consumers for some time. They guessed that the sellers' market in men's suits may not end for a year, although suit production is now above prewar. As for women's dresses, there should be a large supply in the stores by next fall...
...wild cherry trees and the poplars unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the bursting buds of the lindens expanded, the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were busy and joyous over their nests. . . . Plants, birds, insects and children rejoiced. But man, mature man, ceased not to cheat and to harass himself and his fellowmen.-Leo Tolstoy in "Resurrection...