Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real live rabbits were at large in the House yesterday and were, appropriately enough, left unmolested...
Parade. Slogan of the Legion's Convention this year was "Up Fifth Avenue Again in 1937" and its members started to live up to it last week on the bright crisp morning of the first day of autumn, 20 years after its members entered the trenches in France. When the parade started, 1,000,000 New Yorkers were lined up along the sidewalks to watch it. Shops along Fifth Avenue, closed for the day, had boarded up their plate-glass show windows. Traffic for blocks on both sides of the city's central artery was ordered to detour...
Headed for the U. S. is Henry Humloke, son-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire, who acted as stand-in for King George VI at Coronation rehearsals. He will go to Hollywood to seek a movie contract, will live with Dancer Fred Astaire, whose Sister Adele is married to Mrs. Humloke's brother, Lord Charles Cavendish...
...fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors speak...
...event. Even the Harvard-phobia who starts at the first page will not lay down the book until the end is reached. A sense of the magnitude of what is being recorded grasps the reader comparable to that which grasped the watchers last year. Mr. Greene makes those days live again...