Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought home a trunkful of china and glassware as gifts to relatives. By mistake this trunk went to his nephew in St. Louis and the liquor-laden trunk (presumably belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought any liquor in Panama. Why, I wouldn't know what to do with it because I'm not a drinking man." Illinois' Senator Glenn...
Soon after that, the exciting, smell-laden strip of turf and shrubbery in the middle of the avenue began to be narrowed. And policemen grew stricter about letting dogs go inside the iron fences. At the same time the sidewalks were narrowed too. Since telephone poles long ago disappeared from Park Avenue and the slim trees are boarded up, a dog's life was no fun at all during the months when hydrants and lamp posts were made inaccessible by excavations...
Most normal people are not bowed down by the woes of the universe at the age of five: nor are most normal people buoyed up by the unromantic hope that they may learn more mathematics; but many are "weary of the earth," and some are "laden with their sins." For these "The Conquest of Happiness" was written. It is not profound or ritualistic dogma; it is not a conquest built upon mechanical logic; it is the philosophy of a happy man expounded for everyman. In the book there are many truisms and many time worn panaceas for the jaded spirit...
...five Bertrand Russell's favorite hymn was "Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
...truce is over. A short period of preparation is left to the Military Corps to reenforce the shaky entrenchments and to roll the projectile-laden caissons to the front zone. Frightened recruits with a weakened morale await the attack side by side with hardened veterans bearing their ancient battle honors on the regimental standards. The estimable old lady of Mr. Auburn street again plays a relief role for Molly Stark, cramming the nervous soldiery with essentials and priming them with the finer point sof trench warfare. Last-minute instructions are issued by the tactical division as the coming campaign...