Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will gradually succumb to bolshevism. . . . Of course we could say of Spain: 'Let them slaughter their officers and murder their priests and intellectuals-it is none of our business.' I would have the mentality of a child if I should take that attitude. We do not live on the moon. What happens in Europe does concern us. I believe that we 'wild nationalists' are, after all. the best Europeans. . . . And now gentlemen, you must have good appetites, come to luncheon...
...that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual or by one group but by those who live in many lands. . . In this unquiet modern world which inventions have compressed to the size of Emerson's America we have need not so much for the America scholar as for the mutual understanding of a multitude of scholars in every country who will take up into themselves all the hopes...
...live in a strange age. Every age has been a strange age but ours is stranger than most...
...polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight ahead. Next winter, she will live in Buckinghamshire, England, write a biography of her ancestor Carter Braxton, who signed the Declaration of Independence for Virginia...
...made plans that came to nothing. At desolate, run-down Youghal Corney decided to confess to her father. Thereupon she tried to drown herself, brought on a miscarriage that killed her. Corney became one of the eccentric characters of Cork, grew old enough to realize that if he could live his life over he would do it all again, except for the week when he had been "untrue to his sins" and begged Elsie to confess to her father...