Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink, down, down, past goggling fish with drifting films of tails, past ribbons of ruffled seaweed, purple and brown," but she would be brave, she would...
...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...
...Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors out of gifts and dance tickets. Of one breezy gob she becomes enamoured and over her he starts a free-for-all fight. No peace-lover, his past record is against him when he is arrested. Unless he comes out of this scrape, he will be court-martialed...
Herbert Hoover, Republican nominee for President, will pass through Harvard Square today at ten minutes past 12 O'clock in an automobile as part of his tour through greater Boston. It is expected that he may stop and speak for a few moments...
...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...