Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, visiting in New York, reassured the West that "We in Berlin never talk of war. We know there will be no war . . . Our common aim is only peace." However, "we live much too near the Soviet paradise to want to be incorporated...
...always wanted most of all to write plays," confessed Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry...
...were never quite married," explained Walter Surovy, manager-husband since 1939 of handsome Met Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens. "We had a marriage certificate and tore it into pieces . . . We decided to remain in a state of courtship . . . We have violent fights and make violent love...
...Communist Victor Kravchenlco won satisfaction of a sort from the pro-Communist Paris weekly Les Lettres Françaises, which had charged that he never wrote I Chose Freedom and that it was full of lies anyway. Victor sued for three million francs ($10,000). After weeks of lurid courtroom charges and countercharges, the judge ordered the weekly to pay the court a 15,000-franc ($50) fine, pay Kravchenko 150,000 francs ($500) damages, and print the court decision on its front page...
...What are you doing with your most precious years? Just where do you think you are heading? . . . Teaching is the worst matrimonial blind alley that ever a girl can get into. Many teachers never marry ... In the years to come, you may be spending your holidays alone, or your relatives may patronize you and allow you to look in upon them...