Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICTOR HUGO-Matthew Josephson-Doubleday, Doran...
...regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were no cookie pushers: James O'Connor, 36, serving one year to life for robbery, who escaped twice before; William Stewart, 43, Matthew Nelson, 40, and St. Clair Mclnerney, 30, serving life terms as habitual criminals; Edward Darlak, 33, serving 199 years for murder...
With this book Matthew Josephson fills a gaping hole in U.S. biographical writing (hitherto there has been no good life of Victor Hugo) and adds another superb study to his series of great French literary figures (Zola and His Time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau). In the U.S. the great champions of democracy have always been practical politicians. In France they have usually been literati...
...liquor production will stop completely on or before Nov. 1. This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...
...newsmen, the Army's handling of the whole bungled affair suggested a more appropriate text from Matthew 6, 3: "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth...