Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contains South America's oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, who now lives in restless exile in Mendoza, just over the Andes in Argentina. Baron von Thermann's plane stopped at Mendoza on his way to Santiago...
...Also on hand was the new Governor, Pennsylvania's Guy Swope. There was no doubt of the immensity of Muñoz Marin's task: Puerto Rico's sugar industry is depressed, her coffee trade war-killed, her population problem acute, her living costs high, labor restless (although the U. S. is spending $40,000,000 for defense in Puerto Rico). One of Muñoz Marin's first tasks was to listen to complaints of 700 workmen about a row with U. S. Marines at their work on a new airfield...
...preach, but somehow I ken that ye're makin' God great." Before the lectures were finished, World War II broke out. Even that did not cut down the attendance. Intent on his exposition at one crowded lecture, Dr. Niebuhr suddenly noticed that his audience had grown restless. "Gracious, I'm losing their attention," he thought, "I'd better steam...
There was an exalted memory of Percy's father: "Epstein with his heads neurotic, restless, ugly, is the appropriate portraitist of this generation, but . . . Father . . . would have been at home on the west portal of Chartres with those strong ancients, severe and formidable and full of grace, who guard the holy entrance...
...doing Snooks, Fanny is paid $5,000 a week. A bit moody now and restless, she is sometimes difficult to handle, gets whims like refusing to wear glasses for fear of spoiling Snooks's appearance to radio audiences, which necessitates writing her script in triple-size type. A great one for entertaining, she lives in an 18-room Beverly Hills mansion, which she has furnished ornately with French and English antiques. Among recent drop-ins have been the socially hard-to-get Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham. Describing the occasion, Fanny remarked, "Like jerks, we played parlor games." Most...