Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For seven years he led a flock in East Harlem. Welfare work took up most of his time. Though his mind brimmed with strange economic and political questions, he could still vote a second time for Wilson in 1916. Then came the War. It knocked him loose from all his...
2) As tools of socialization, inheritance and income taxes would be boosted sky-high to break up private fortunes, reduce personal profits, abolish unearned income. Tax-exempt securities would be closed as a refuge for the rich.
Of course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides...
Superficially, the story of the book springs from the social conflict between the Irish immigrants living in Scotland, and the native Scots, though the equation of antagonistic stocks is quickly abandoned for the familiar and more personal geometry of the triangle. "Three Loves" is really the story of a woman...
Sad is the fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock...