Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't been bombed by any Germans yet, but are waging relentless warfare against Air Raid Wardens, who come round at all hours of the night banging on the door and shouting that they can see a crack of light through one of our windows. The dog has gallantly bitten two of them, but they have retaliated by reporting him to the police. We are thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen...
...been changed, and that we had to live at the Fire Station in the most vile discomfort. In fact things got so impossible we all resigned in a body, but improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping bag, as, after being perfectly sickeningly hot, it has turned icy cold. We are five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home...
Yesterday night, as I was beginning to read, in the French translation, the first chapter of the sixth part of Jakob Burckhardt's excellent work Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, one of my sons, who is always first to read TIME on arrival, entered my library visibly in a passion and there was in his voice a ring of indignation...
...remember, Dad," he said, "how deep were our feelings, when we heard our radio first news of the war? It is our destiny, it is each of us who is concerned-you said presently-it is the survival of our civilisation that is at stake, and this night when the terrible news of such a cataclysm reaches us will be forever la noche triste. And our whole household was in tears. Next day, Rio de Janeiro, almost a desert, silent, immersed in melancholy, looked like a cemetery. And the Press unanimously expressed this bitter sorrow of our Christian people...
More than 200 students have already signed its petition to the Corporation asking that Earl Browder be allowed to speak in a University hall, the John Reed Society's Executive Committee announced last night...