Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...
Puzzled over the difficulty of maintaining even a pork chop Heaven on earth, Bishop Selkridge and his four followers rocked quietly back and forth in the Newark jail last week, still muttering their chant, "Peace . . . Peace . . . Isn't it wonderful! Peace...
...Well," he announced after suitable courtesies, "I think I'd better start to work this summer. You see, it isn't that I have to, but last winter I met a girl and she's got pretty serious ideas about life. I mean she just doesn't think about the present all the time...
...There's no use to kid ourselves and there isn't any use in delaying the start of liquor manufacture. It will mean putting hundreds of thousands of men back to work and it will mean hundreds of thousands of dollars of new business...
...isn't because I haven't got the stories. Not at all. . . . It is simply because I am convinced this business has become more than ever a matter of timeliness and I deem it wise to hold open enough places on the program to inject any new thing which may come...