Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time. The girl had turned out to be quite a skier. Where...
...pyramids work like this: at his first party a new member hands over two dollars, becomes one of many "number 125" at the base of the pyramid. The next night he becomes a "number 11" and must bring two new members, each with two dollars, to keep the organization intact. On each subsequent night, as new members multiply and form pyramids behind them, he is pushed toward the peak of his pyramid, until on the 12th night he becomes a number i and theoretically receives...
Punishment. "I herewith state publicly that I intend to live down, if possible, the opprobrium of corruption. It is heartening that people deal with me in a spirit of understanding and kindness; it must be with some conscious effort...
Turning from God and the stars, she looked for other deities. She flung herself into the patronizing worship of the proletariat which came to be fashionable in the early 20th Century. Once she told a friend: "I want to find someone who will tell me just what I must do about everything, and then I will do it." When revolution came to Russia, Anna Louise Strong found her master. Said she: "For me the Party combines all the early gods of my youth...
...inevitably, the billboards have their sordid patches. One recent ad read: "Well-situated, well-educated lady, 45 years old, is looking for cultivated girl friend who must be blonde with full figure...