Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the Stove. Like people everywhere, Freedom's citizens had their worries. Said John Kay: "I don't like a man in debt and over his head like our government is." He worried about Russia too: "When they get China they'll come after us." But for all that, almost everyone agreed with Gail Abrell that Freedom had plenty to be thankful...
...case, the baby would probably ascend the throne as George VII (the present King was known as Albert when he was a prince). Ebullient Princess Margaret pointed out the only possible drawback to the new name. "Now," she said, "I suppose they'll call me Charlie's Aunt...
...getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...
...shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with a childish innocence that takes the curse off their calculated pathos-as when she says during a picnic with her husband: "Then I've lost another day. I don't suppose I'll ever find it." (The husband-one of those thankless, long-suffering bystander parts which might have been merely sappy-is ably played by Mark Stevens...
...graduate," said Vag. "You see, I'd like to see my name in Latin. But you understand, I want to come back for my twenty-fifth Class Reunion, for at that time I plan to make my big Gift to the University. With a leave of absence, I'll be sure of coming back...