Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against personal wellbeing. They think we oppose flowers, music, cleanliness, a stylish suit! They imagine Socialism as a grey barracks in which everything is done according to instructions alike for everybody! They think we oppose three or four rooms comfortably furnished, for every family. What a foul and stinking lie...
...trade for a clerk is bird-painting. A man must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally...
Between the Louvre and the Place de la Republique lie the great grimy sheds of the Halles Centrales, the central markets of Paris. Tourists returning from the theatres pass long lines of high-wheeled wagons, piled high with cabbages. Few ever notice the long rows of stalls outside the market where weary camelots sell rubber dolls, postcards, hair oil, lace doilies, patent corkscrews...
...least instructive, most diverting. More vulgar than Mayor Walker, Mayor Kingston has himself measured for a suit in the presence of guests. Less able than his prototype, Mayor Kingston cannot tie his own black tie. Before his valet does it for him, he startles his master by saying: "Please lie down. I used to be an undertaker...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann ($2.50). THE RIPENING-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). HOT WATER-P. G. Vodehouse- Doubleday, Dor an ($2). WHEN THE GANGS COME TO LON- DON-Edgar WTallace-Crime Club ($2). Another posthumous Parthian shot from the late great detectifictioneer. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT-Emi- lie and Georges Romieu-Dutton ($3-75)-Rodomontadinous French biography of one Mary Ann Evans, writer...