Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suicide and accused Roiter of having always felt contempt for Hallem, of needing his wretchedness as a foil for his own excellence. Roiter admitted it. When Roiter died, a few days later, he was a really great man at last. Side by side with this main narrative- the lifelong duel between Hallem who wanted to die and Roiter who was determined to live-are the hardly less moving stories of Hallem's sons, inheritors of his bitter spirit, of his wife, whom he alternately loved and hated, of Roiter's wife and children, many another minor but well...
...great Frenchman and these fantasies." Wells admits his stories are intended to be only temporarily plausible; "they aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." Surprisingly, he finds himself much more like Jonathan Swift, says "my early, profound and lifelong admiration for Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make the stories reflect upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells. He now calls The Island of Dr. Moreau...
Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for 23 years, he never held a city sinecure which paid less than $6,000, while he developed a profitable insurance brokerage business on the side). He blamed James Aloysius Farley with fomenting revolt against him. "Now, I don't want to make any accusation against President Roosevelt," he continued...
...MANUSCRIPT MURDER-George Limnelius-Crime Club ($2). A lifelong association of four men culminates in the murder of the most despised among them. Reading a detective story with these men as characters brings forth the killer...
...before the President's address to the joint session (see p. 14). This piece of misinformation almost deprived Mrs. Roosevelt of a very special pleasure. Just as she was about to leave the galleries with the rest of the spectators, she turned to see her bridesmaid and lifelong friend, Isabella Greenway, take the oath of office as Congresswoman-at-large from Arizona...