Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first novel. Long descriptions of rural sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
...five years of misery and woe" during which "hunger was my true comrade", he worked in Vienna as common laborer, carpenter, housepainter, picked up a little money decorating Christmas cards. In 1912 he went to Munich and his spirit lifted into the "two happiest years of my life." Though he still had scarcely enough to eat, he did drawings for the newspapers, had them accepted, prowled through the museums, observed the most leisurely, tolerant culture of pre-War Germany. In these fine years he did four of the water colors on view last week in Munich, including well-rendered "architectural...
...wounds of 1905 had not healed, nor were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...
...statement that Boston habitually permits the discouragement of "universality acknowledged art" is getting to be a tiresome bromide, kept popularly alive by hearsay, especially among those whose hunger for art, universally recognized or not, suddenly rises to an incredible high at the exact moment that the censors slash a play, and troubles them little at other times...
More disturbing to those who hunger for a balanced budget was the fact that in this year's budget message, unlike last year's, the President set no date, however remote, for balancing the budget, proposed no means, however vague, for doing so. Instead, he left the question of ending recurring deficits to such time as private industry may re-employ the unemployed. And his work relief plans meant that the per capita cost of maintaining the unemployed would continue on a scale greater than ever before...