Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many people are beset with doubt as to the cause of it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. We have been enacting more rigorous laws giving longer sentences which means that the prisons are filling up. Now we put two men in a cell intended for one. Some live in the hallways. Then come the riots among the prisoners. Our next step is to build more prisons-and so I ask you what will the end be? Are we reducing crime? Many of your readers must have opinions upon this subject and I therefore propose that they be invited...
...cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours...
...Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their retreat and live...
...hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love him. It seems that we cannot live together...
...body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make him think...