Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty...
...frenzy. So warm was the Gettle story in Los Angeles that old Arthur Brisbane, visiting there, stepped back into his favorite role of reporter for the day. He went to the Hall of Justice, spent four and a half hours with the prisoners in the case, wrote live columns instead of one for his syndicate next day. After interviewing Kidnappers Kirk, Kerrigan & Williams (see p. 16), Reporter Brisbane met their two women and melted. Wrote...
...Yellowstone Park for their honeymoon, build a house of their own. Possibly he would get that better-paying job as typesetter for the New Orleans Picayune. The Yellowstone Park trip is given up when Eve's father is killed in a buggy accident. They go to live in her mother's house. Patient, cheerful Chet is only too glad to forsake the Picayune job because he wants to be on hand when Eve has her baby. The Maine is blown up, the band plays "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Chet goes off to the Spanish War in the blue...
...must come over here. I live in a palace. And, oh boy, it's some palace...
...blighted career, the arrested career, the diverted career are, with us, the rule." But he has cold comfort for the pseudo-stoics: "To be, to feel oneself, a 'victim' is in itself not to be an artist, for it is the nature of the artist to live, not in the world of which he is an effect, but in the world of which he is the cause, the world of his own creation." Critic Brooks thinks that U. S. traditions have long since burned themselves out, that U. S. modern life, as opposed to Europe...