Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon...
...course I'm dumb, diplomatically and politically! Who isn't? But with all the talk about giving the African colonies back to Germany - or what not - why does no one suggest the obvious solution? Why not give them all back to the Africans? Not necessarily to the Negroes, though that might be proper, too; but to the Africans? Because that's what will ultimately have to be done. Neither England, Germany, Italy, nor Belgium can indefinitely hold any part of Africa as colonial exploitation material...
...Chicago-born grandson of Marshall Field. Thus guided, Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit of mine . . . has no political significance whatever. It is not official, my visit: it isn't even semi-official or even a sixteenth-part official. It is a visit of friendship...
...best thing for beginners to do is to take instruction. It isn't drudgery at all; in fact, it's fun, because you're with a bunch of people who know no more than...
...almost silly," Odets went on, "to have to be defending the theme of love for a play. Popular songs and motion pictures are occupied with practically nothing else. But in a serious play ... it apparently strikes some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.' It isn't 'important.' . . . The roots of love and the meaning of it in the present world need surely to be comprehended as much as the effect of a strike on its activists. (In fact, I am hoping to prove in a future play, The Silent Partner, that love...