Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plutarch Jr. Sirs: ... I consider the department of LETTERS the best thing in the magazine. This department individualizes the oddities of people and serves to remind me that the people among whom I live have their counterparts in other parts of the world. Prom my point of view this department might be extended a little without losing its flavor...
...Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...that a foreigner named Karl Marx wrote a book in which he recommended that all the money in the world be divided up equally among all the people; that all real estate be taken over by the State and some of it reassigned to people in small pieces to live on; that all industry and education be run by a government in which every man would have a say. There are a few other details which the man-in-the-street* remembers or not according to temperament and inclinations, such as filling up the plentiful spare time which Socialists would...
...content with waging a ruthless "battle of wheat" (TIME, Oct. 24), Premier Benito Mussolini ordered a "national rice day" for Nov. 1. Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...
DRACULA-In which the dead live and the living destroy death...