Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing with the refusal of the Daughters of the American Revolution to permit the Negress Anderson to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington. In this article, Washington was referred to as "provincial." This was spiteful and entirely unjustified. Remarks of that nature show that all small people do not live in small towns...
...child in India, Hostess Hughes-Hallett was taught by her father, a British Army officer, to love all animals and especially those that other people despised. When she was three, Father Holmes-Tidy got her used to snakes by keeping a 14-foot python as a house pet. Live snakes are not always available to city dwellers, and when the Hughes-Halletts first moved to Detroit, Mrs. Hughes-Hallett had a hard time getting enough pets. She solved the problem by calling up the Police Department and requesting that any snakes they found be turned over to her. Commented indulgent...
...twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most of it gloomily in Bermuda, praying in his own fashion for "Ace" to live...
Soon enough lawnmowers will fly, and streets will be dry, and people will again start giving a damn whether they live...
...When I was at Harvard it had been the fashion to live in ugly frame houses which lined the streets off Massachusetts Avenue . . . . now that the entire academic scene had changed I did not feel at home," relates Marquand's fictional Harvard alumnus in "Wickford Point...