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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Hollywood, Elizabeth has refused to let a little thing like a continent come between them. She writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...
Mystic Meditations. He describes the praying mantis, "or, as they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon...
...Decorative Faith. In this defection of leadership, Maritain sees "a kind of punishment of the Christian world, which for a long period had more or less betrayed Christianity in its practical endeavor, and despised the lessons of the saints, and forsaken the immense herd of the hopeless whom destitution and unlivable conditions of existence riveted to hell on earth...
...railroads did not know how to buck the trend, as long as labor costs kept rising and income dropping. Since 1939, railroad freight rates had been increased 57%. All told, the railroads will collect an estimated $3 billion more a year for freight hauling than under the 1939 rates. Meanwhile wages have been boosted 86% -and next month's reduction of the work week from 48 to 40 hours will cost another $380 million a year...
...found that the slaughter of the chickens left feet, heads and entrails, Schnering brought in mink which thrive on chicken waste; he now has 400 breeding mink on his farm. One day Schnering decided to put the gushing springs on his farm to work. He built a ¼-mile-long trout hatchery, last year sold 60,000 trout to hotels and restaurants for an average...