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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this type of angry, incoherent prose will prove is anybody's guess. Thus far it has resulted-in the work of Durrell and Miller-in dismembered passages of isolated brilliance, lit with lurid imagery and standing out sharply above records of life that are often dull and usually obscene. It stems from James Joyce's Ulysses, but represents a type of curdled romanticism foreign to Joyce-more brutal, less artful, pervaded by a sense of hopelessness and despair beside which Joyce at his most pessimistic seems blithe and full of spirit...
...conductor lit a pipe. "Both sides passed out uniformly bad cigars this year, and neither party commits itself on the question of Grade B motion pictures. What Boston needs is a five cent fare or a fire." Seeing this line of questioning was getting me nowheres, I lowered my voice...
Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
...snapping and curling of the forward hawser, three frantic excursions by the rowboat, and the working of winches and propellors, the ship was made sung. Rolling like the master of an old sailing ship, in which school was trained, Commodore Irving came to rest in his cabin and lit one of nine pipes. Unaware of his heroism, the Commodore puffed vigorously and said: "I hope the tugboat strike will be over before the Queen Mary returns." And so he will go down in marine history as the first man to dock an Ocean liner without tags and in labor history...
...Orator Hitler was to speak to 10,000 sitters and 20,000 standees in Luitpold Hall. Also on schedule was the annual early morning service for the Party dead in the Luitpold Arena, a Youth Rally in the Old Stadium. A Labor Service drill of 45,000. a search-lit demonstration of 110,000 political leaders and all-day war games would wear down the grass of the Zeppelin Meadow. Hitler writes but a henchman reads the Fuhrer's annual opening Proclamation at Nürnberg. Millions of Europeans hoped he would end the suspense over Czechoslovakia...