Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...
...talked mostly about the West, "the greatest place on earth to live." He devoted most of another informal little speech to reminiscing about his father's job on the Southern Pacific, his own early days as a summer roustabout. "I thought I might have been a pretty good railroader," he chuckled, "but my father saw I was a failure and had no choice but to make a lawyer...
...trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide to postpone the issue for a year...
...English carry into almost every department of modern life their great unwillingness to admit facts, their power of pretending that things are not so ... [They] live in cities but they are not citified . . . They are urbane without being urban . . . They can dwell in the midst of 20 miles of paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere...
...watched them languish and die. This time they meant business. Led by sleekly coiffured Rosa ("Mitty") Marckmann de González Videla, 41, wife of the President, they determinedly celebrated Women's Suffrage Week, felt sure that a new bill before the Chamber of Deputies would both live and become...