Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who live in the District of Columbia have a local government which costs 48-odd million dollars a year. Because its large realty holdings are taxexempt, the Federal Government last year contributed a flat $5,000,000 to help run the District. For the privilege of doing business in Washington, some 45,000 businessmen paid in licenses and business-privilege taxes another two million into the District's till. The additional 41 millions or so were paid by D. C. citizens who always grouse about taxation without representation, because Congress makes their laws but they cannot vote...
...clammy hands around his quivering bat. The Yankees were one run behind, the bases were loaded, two men were out. Facing the Yankee rookie was wily old Pete Alexander, just called from the bullpen. With 38,000 pairs of eyes focused on him Rookie Lazzeri, trying desperately to live up to his reputation as a slugger, went down swinging...
...prime favorite with song pluggers, the Waring band has made many tunes go strong, too (Collegiate, In My Gondola, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More, etc.). The pluggers used to clutter up Fred's Broadway office, but now Fred has a different arrangement. He meets them once a week for lunch in a Broadway Automat cafeteria, talks over their wares, matches them for the check...
Anti-Semitism. In the shadow of exile Moses and Monotheism was written. But no trace of lamentation shows in the tone of the book. We live, says Freud imperturbably, in remarkable times. For a long period it seemed that progress had made an alliance with barbarism, as in Russia, where a great attempt to lift the people to a higher standard of life was coupled with a ruthless suppression of free speech and thought. But in Germany this unnatural marriage has been dissolved, and barbarism proceeds alone...
...real live mermaid...