Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cotton is like a sinking ship. When a ship at sea is sinking, you do not wait to work out navigation problems and try to devise a long-range program. You just shout, 'Man the lifeboats!' Now we are trying to man the lifeboats for cotton...
...enormous slab, stood the old four-story and nine-story mansions of the Rockefeller family. Town dwellings of the elder and younger John D. Rockefeller for, respectively, 40 and 2 5 years, the houses were abandoned two years ago to wreckers. Last week the site became part of a long garden. In the garden were evergreens, arbors, trees, wattle screens, and sculpture by Lachaise, Despiau, Zorach, Lipchitz. One fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms, and hundreds of rustling ladies. Back of them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble...
Pictures have a longer tradition as Art than machine-tooling or the cinema. The 186,000 visitors to the Museum during its first year came to see pictures, and pictures for a long time made up the Museum's most elaborate and popular exhibitions. Among them...
Burning question for many readers may well be: what do the Beards think of the New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt? Adept at juggling hot coals, the cagey Beards are much too light-fingered to hold one of them a minute too long, on the whole admire most New Deal intentions, are politely skeptical of most New Deal results...
...European matters when he served as adviser to the Yugoslavian Government in 1927-28. Serbs appreciated his advice, but continued to oppress Croats, Macedonians, Hungarians. "That cured me," Beard says. He thinks Europe is just a big Balkans, that Americans can never solve Europe's problems. A long-term optimist, Beard believes that Fascism cannot come to the U. S. "Democracy," says he, "is a cause that is never won, but I believe it will never be lost...