Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of all this, Sir Bernard thinks the Bedouins who live in Aden are lucky. Last week he let them in on some centenary pageantry-a ball, concerts, a show of arms, a special issue of postage stamps. Sixteen sultans from the outlying protectorate paraded in splendor. One real gift, worth waiting a century for in disease-ridden Aden: $30,000 for a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre...
...quavering, crackerish voice took up the tale: "Today I live at the Mississippi State Hospital in Jackson. Doctors there say I am about 70 years old. ... I am almost bald, and what hair I have is grey. ... I am five feet seven inches tall, and weigh 145 Ibs. My doctor believes I was well educated . . . and I am sure I was once familiar with financial statements. . . . I can identify unusual plants by their botanical names. . . . Also I remember the rules of complicated card games like bridge. "Gradually I have recalled several places where I have been. ... I remember best Pensacola...
...busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances of his music are still few & far between...
Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
...Corporations can and should take steps to place upon their boards working directors who are adequately compensated, and the responsibilities of those directors should be made commensurate with their trust. . . . The paid director, familiar with the affairs of his company, could not live in peaceful and happy ignorance, oblivious to the fact that warehouses and inventories which his company owns are figments of a criminal imagination...