Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basis of the St. Louis tragedy was a Cuban decree of May 5, requiring authorization from the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury in addition to visas and landing permits. The Hamburg-American Line, according to the Cubans, was informed of this change in the immigration law before the St. Louis sailed for Havana, but chose to gamble on the chance that once the Jews were planted on Cuba's doorstep, formalities would be waived...
...apologize for entering the Kalgan war zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...
...May of the next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted...
...giant brutality, rugged power and exultant energy," said the Star. "A figure more powerful than the most powerful animal, indeed, a being that is king of all creation," said the Evening Standard. Said bushy-haired Sculptor Epstein, king of the Primitive movement in sculpture (whose authentic impulse none may question, whose enduring value time will tell): "I saw Adam as the questing, mysterious primitive man. I saw him as the fount of all mankind...
...newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...