Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another week passed, and no square mile changed hands in Spain last week but signs were not lacking that the six-weeks' stalemate would not last much longer. On Thanksgiving eve, Madrid, quiet for over a month, received its heaviest shelling since October 16. Some 300 buildings were damaged, scores of civilians were killed. It happened to be the first occasion that Counselor of U. S. Embassy Walter Thurston had visited Madrid in over a year. Unscathed, he presided at a Thanksgiving dinner (from cans) for the remnants of Madrid's U. S. colony: five newspaper correspondents...
...moment with only the 1,100 (500 kg.) and 4,409 lb. (2,000 kg.) payload marks. When the world press published these facts about supposedly good friends, both Germany's Air Ministry and the Heinkel Works closed their doors to reporters and Germans who no longer laugh in public about public matters chuckled privately behind their hands...
...London dinner guests, the Earl of Mansfield, reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...
...been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost too delicate for Proust, Author Cain brings his story to a violent conclusion, with Hawes and Juana both dead, the singer silent again. But Howard no longer thinks of his own tragedy, broods instead on the ruin he caused a girl who knew more about him than he knew about himself...