Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essay on education for the masses. Mr. Bradshaw would substitute for the impractical curriculum of the High Schools--in which, by a silly trick, he leaves out American History and Civics, and includes necking a practical education in mortgages, insurance, and birth control. Then, he says, the masses will live "decently, sanely and cleanly on $27.50." And he triumphantly concludes: "It is easier, less expensive, and less apt to throw economic wheals off their course to educate the masses into their present economic standard of living than to raise that standard by artificial means." This is the language...
...ballet and the voices of Margaret Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...will finish with a general collapse of our opposition which each day becomes more certain. One day Spain will wake up and have the surprise of learning the war is over!" Boasted back the city of Madrid on banners unfurled Nov. 7 "On Nov. 7th we crushed Franco.! . . . Long live Madrid, the Capital of the World...
...into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion to do more than burble: "I want to be a good man, to fit into things ... get a little closer to people. ..." The rest of the book is the story of his efforts to live up to his resolutions, and his eventual defeat...
...meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...