Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eulogy of the Australian radical, Harry Bridges, particularly in view of the inaccuracies contained in the article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon a pedestal a man whose name is anathema to all real American citizens...
...There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...eight times, wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on archery and insisted on entertaining his rivals last week with bagpipe music every noon and evening; Captain Cassius Hayward Styles of Berkeley, Calif., onetime aviator who, after being shot down four times in the World War and ordered to live in the mountains to regain his health, took to bow & arrow hunting, now earns his living by making tackle; and Ed Miller, husky Buffalo, N. Y. Customs Officer, whose quiver was made from a moose's foot. Any one of these or most of the other amateur or professional...
...looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped...
...Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London...