Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money for fancy fellowships for U. S. poets. Explained Mrs. Bullock on one occasion: "Poetry has been on the decline in America principally, I believe, because poets must eat like the rest of us, and there has been no live or ready market for their wares...
...Verpelet, Hungary, Gypsy Karoly Balog-Moga hanged himself, left a farewell note: "I cannot live without my beloved fiddle, which the mayor broke the other night when he was in high spirits...
Despite the laments of twenty-five year graduates and others of the nostalgic type, this world seems still a virile and stimulating place to live in. Wars and things in Spain are all very well for the front page, but all the really exciting things happen, it seems in Boston--at our very doors, as Mowgli would...
...important categories of literature as recognized by secondary school English masters is "escape" literature, and the Record provides opportunities for escape rivalled only by the most remarkable of lobster newburgh nightmares. Here in truth is the safety valve on life for those who live out their drab existances for from the palaces of wealth and pleasure of a now bygone...