Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a corridor, a group of matrons were trying to decide whether to take any more of this, or to go home. A tall, distinguished-looking man came rushing down the corridor. "Let's go, ladies," he called rudely. They fluttered out of his way, and he rushed by...
For a while last fortnight many a Brazilian feared that constitutional government was in danger. President Dutra's own P.S.D. (Social Democratic Party) had splintered beneath him. In a highly significant local election last week, Fascist-minded Getulio Vargas, dictator for 15 years, and sallow Luis Carlos Prestes, the...
The fish, not yet ready for the party to stop, move to the next light. After a while Dr. Sasaki douses that light too. The fish move on, in a growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining...
Soul & Body. High point of The Apostolic Fathers is the "Letter to Diognetus." Written in the form of a letter to a pagan to describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not...
Died. Walter Henry Rich, 67, president of Atlanta's easy-credit Rich's Inc., busiest department store in the South (last year's sales: $42,000,000); of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Publicity-minded Merchant Rich attracted attention in the depression by proposing that Atlanta'...