Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both...
...propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city, and airmen from Majorca returned to drop live explosives on Barcelona's mangled waterfront...
Heavy, hackneyed, played too slow for melodrama, written too badly for anything else, The Devil Takes a Bride seemed to forget that it was the cast, not the audience, who are supposed to live...
...that "in going where you have to go ... and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with." He adds that it can be sharpened again, and after it is sharpened he knows he will have something to write about-he wants to live long enough to write three more novels and 25 more stories. Readers of his new book are likely to hope that he sticks to stories and novels and keeps off plays...
...rout of the non-Aryans from Germany (it seems that he considers every Jew a Communist and every Communist a Jew). On the other hand, if questioned about the Poles in German Silesia, he would reply that they were more German than Polish, and hence should continue to live under the swastika. In saying that he would, without realizing it, have hit upon the reason why the complete extinction of racial minorities is not imperative; but he shows at the same time no intention of applying this very idea to German minorities in foreign lands...