Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itinerant Irish horse traders, the Rileys and Costellos, the O'Haras, Carrolls and Sherlocks. During the winter they travel round from one mule market to another, running down the animals of other people and commenting enthusiastically on the good points of their own. During the summer they live in tourist camps and see the world. Once a year, on May 1. they get together just outside of Nashville for the festive Irish purpose of burying their dead...
...Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went cheers in which the Italian peasants were joined by a delegation of Japanese university students who shrilled: "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live...
WASHINGTON--Chairman Jesse-Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation today bluntly told the nation's bankers that they have been neither wise nor energetic in meeting the credit needs of the country and warned that government control of banking is a "live" subject. Addressing a round-table gathering at the annual Chamber of Commerce of the United States Convention, Jones reminded the bankers that there's is a franchise that carries responsibility and "not merely a privilege...
...fees take a lot of that. As for the theatre, out of 8,400 actors in New York last season, 2,355 got parts, and of these 625 were women. There is more work in nightclubs, but during rehearsals chorus girls are not paid and are compelled to "live on roots and herbs...