Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brer Rabbit, sezee. "Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder," sezee. Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer Fox, he lay low...
...bigwigs and littlewigs of the Protestant Episcopal Church gathered in Philadelphia this week for their triennial General Convention, one issue overshadowed all others: a proposal for union with the Presbyterians. Into the high-church v. low-church debate on that issue, the undenominational but ecumenical-minded Christian Century cast an all-out editorial. Excerpts...
...students who demonstrated against concessions to Bolivia in the Chaco. That was on Oct. 23, 1931. Last month Guggiari got a rousing homecoming reception from members of his Liberal Party. As he spoke to them, an airplane emblazoned with the students' motto, "October 23- Rest in Peace," swept low. As the ex-President rode down Calle Palma, "assassin" and other insults glared from the walls. At the Panteón Nacional, shrine of Paraguay's heroes, students and Liberals met head on. The police charged in. Soon, more heroes decorated the shrine; two lay dead, 39 were injured...
...Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
...movie is no match for the story that inspired it, but it is an exceptionally suspenseful, crisp and lively melodrama, distinguished by shrewd casting and playing, plenty of harsh action, and an extra edge of low-life authenticity. Odd literary note: the Hemingway dialogue, well presented in the film, becomes as strangely formalized on the sound track as heroic couplets...