Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
Sometime in the 18th Century, the heart of Julien Poydras was broken. This week Mmes Marjorie Goudeau Vessier, Elizabeth Thibodeaux St. Romain, Myrtle Peavy Ashley and 18 other Louisiana brides will profit from the sequel to his sorrow...
Julien Poydras, son of poor peasants at Nantes in France, loved a peasant girl. She had no dot, he had no money, and her parents took the French view of love without francs. Deprived of his intended, young Julien in 1768 took his heart to America, in Louisiana rose from peddler to owner of many acres and slaves. When he died, rich and unwed, in 1824, he bequeathed to the neighboring parishes of Pointe Coupée and West Baton Rouge $30,000 each, ". . . the interest ... to be employed in giving a dowry to all girls of the said parish...
...whole body is twisting in a useless effort. His chest tries to expand to inhale some air, and His head has fallen sideways. . . . Convulsions shake His body from head to foot. His heart is beating wildly. Red tears are streaming down His cheeks. Oh! His head has fallen completely backwards, and it looks as if He had fainted...
Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...