Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
...feet. "If I had to live on rations like that," he retorted, "I would write my Congressman here . . . and plead with him to do everything in his power to see that the WPA used the money Congress appropriated for it for food, instead of throwing it away on a lot of foolishness...
...waiting in jail to be handed over in their chains to the victorious Nationalists. . . . Why are they there? They are being held as ransom. With their lives they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement two-and-a-half years ago, seems...
Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish bowl. A lot of people this summer are going to see it for the first time. In sober moments they might remember the work of a woman who has devoted herself for ten years to seeing it, and making her camera see it, as material for history...
...voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...