Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their 429,300 shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital in the next four years. But with Japan intent on squeezing all Occidental enterprises out of Asia, and particularly keen to get gold for her nearly empty war chest, this looked like a far better risk than a gold mine in Korea...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...
Lady Wenlock was so absent-minded that once when she was hunting a pen, she found herself looking for it under P in the French dictionary. Deaf, too, she carried a silver ear trumpet that looked like an entree dish. When she turned it toward an Italian duke at luncheon, he gallantly filled it with green peas...
...locomotive, the leap of a cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months of his existence as a daily comic-strip character, Superman...
...women would like things to happen swiftly and largely-but, the things they would have happen being so different from the things likely to happen, most of them prefer slow, small lives to naked contact with the insufficiencies that their times and their husbands represent." Thus expatriate Poet Laura Riding compresses the theme of Lives of Wives, and invites readers to take another good look at history...