Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
...seven years; had kissed her the week he hired her as his secretary in 1931; had threatened to kill her brother if he interfered; had sworn to kill "both of you" if he found her going with another man. There were no real intimacies, said she: kisses and hugs, love letters, slaps, hair-pullings, finally escape to Chicago...
...council assembled last week, the Fathers of the busted City of Brotherly Love adopted a desperate measure. They levied a flat 1½% income tax on all wages or salaries earned in the city.-Beginning next Jan. 1, everybody's paycheck may be clipped-whether they are bankers, WPA-sters, or suburbanites who live elsewhere but work in Philadelphia. Only ones sure of exemption are corporations, which already pay a State levy and cannot be doubly taxed. A few unions squawked that employers would have to up wages 1½%. But the mass of citizens sleepily accepted the fact...
...fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...
...sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going to spoil the whole war; but a big cloud comes over the horizon, and the wonderful battle royal starts all over again...