Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew older, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, once a dandy of dandies, became a surly misanthrope. He turned his favorite Delacroix to the wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...
...them in a hole lest I should kiss them...
...suggest that he proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...Malthusians point to India and China and warn that if the world helps them increase their food supply, they will respond by overwhelming the world with a billion more Asiatics. Vogt is especially loud in crying this warning. He even wants the U.S. to stop sending food to Greece, lest the Greeks process each ton of wheat into more Greek mouths...
...working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch weighted envelopes of copy tossed from the moving train...