Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years: "You are all damned lucky to get Admiral Leahy...
...Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats have been "live" stuff, i.e., not transmitted from recordings. Only "canned" Roosevelt the radio audience ever got was that culled from recordings of his 1932-33 speeches by a Chicago pressagent for Senator Arthur Vandenberg's bizarre "spook" debate with him over CBS in the 1936 campaign. One day last month, however, in the White House's fireside-less Diplomatic Room from which all the fireside chatshave been broadcast, Franklin Roosevelt sat down with National Emergency Council Chairman Lowell Mellett and recorded a 15-minute interview...
...Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent...
...United States are shackled to a financial oligarchy by their dependence on private patronage. Plays must have their gag lines, books their seductions, and opera its Diamond Horseshoe, all to entice the sacred dollars out of those few well-filled pocket-books. For without those dollars, the Arts cannot live. Partly to break those shackles which link the Arts so irretrievably with private enterprise, the Administration at Washington inaugurated the Federal Arts projects. By subsidizing these projects, the Government has tried to life the Arts above the dictates and limits of a limited public and pass them...
...period-when his farm finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems...