Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Mr. King had a long session before the same hearth where the Canadian trade agreement had its genesis, slept in a White House bed. Next morning he returned to his Legation in silence. He might have made no more than a social visit, but not an observer in Washington believed it. Too many coincidences were involved...
...both buyer & seller, producer & consumer under the Soviet system. As the Steel Plant is regarded as "military," Mr. Davies was shown it only from a distance, and in all plants visited the "secret military section" was not shown. Next day, a Soviet "rest day," Mr. Davies saw open hearth furnaces at the Karl Liebknicht Steel Tube Plant, visited Lant Hospital...
...looking back over his career, it seemed that every card in it "had been dealt me in such a manner that I had but to play it as it came." True, he had wanted to write a big novel-something "worthy to lie alongside The Cloister and the Hearth"-but that had not been vouchsafed him. On the other hand he had written some books that he knew were good: "My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw." Friends will...
...plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from As You Desire Me to The Cricket on the Hearth. For the Sherwood version of Tovarich she not only learned English but acquired a slight Russian accent...
...intellectual give-and-take between nations, which forms the underlying and unifying theme of this miscellany, is, according to Voltaire, like the fire on our hearth; we fetch it at our neighbor's we light it at home, we hand it on to others, and it belongs to everyone. "Harvard et la France", is in itself proof of the persistence and intensity of this flame. It is not only a fitting testimonial of respect from Joan Sorbon to John Harvard, but a substantial contribution to cultural history...