Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is one point, however, which I would like to clarify. Although it was perhaps not intended by the writer, one could draw the conclusion that Larry had deliberately sought martyrdom, and that now, by applying for parole, he is relinquishing his former position and seeking a quick way out...
Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools.
What with the heat and all the steamy oratory, Congress was beginning to get that old feeling again. Congress had been hard at it for nearly eight months, and by Congress' own rules the Senators and Representatives were supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The...
Ever since the depression, noisy prophets had been springing up along the Pacific Coast to lead the aged in holy wars on the nearest state treasury. They were an odd lot-power-hungry Communists, vote-hungry politicos, sharp-eyed promoters and croupy and lugubrious old bucks with top-heavy cargoes...
Seldom has a novelist made his borrowings more his own. Beale's dry notation that somebody had once tasted whale's milk and found it rich, Melville turned into "The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries...