Word: live
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that of a 'poor relation.' It had been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once...
...eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus chose to live. Through four years of imprisonment on Devil's Island he lived, while mobs rioted, cabinets fell, all France divided into Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends clear his name, to serve at the front in the World War, to be raised...
...must forget the past," said Father Koroshetz. "We must work and live for Jugoslavia...
...most ample dignity and power represents our person in the Congress. . . ." Then the Cardinal-Legate spoke mystically: "The white eucharistic forms of innumerable grains of wheat compenetrated in indissoluble union are the symbol of what, according to Jesus Christ, men should be." His hearers shouted: "Long live Jesus Christ, the King of Peace!" On a third bright spring morning 110,000 children, the girls in white frocks and veils, the boys in white dusters, marched down four wide avenues to the great cross. There at the four altars four scarlet-robed Cardinals celebrated mass. Well-drilled, the 110,000 moppets...
...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...