Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winters ago my brother and myself were hunting rabbits in Central Illinois for a living. We would leave home early in the mornings and return late-but on Sundays the rabbits in the vicinity lived on borrowed time until we had heard Mr. Bradley's sermon. I have no greater respect for the mind of any man than I have for this lover of mankind. Although I'm not religious myself the precepts of this minister could inspire nothing but elevating thoughts and love for one's neighbor. I believe his capacity for doing good...
These three Longsters had every reason to return the President's cordiality, for the Long State machine and the Farley National machine are now on terms of mutual respect and cooperation. The Louisiana prohibition against New Deal money has been abolished, and WPA millions now flow freely into Louisiana. The old income tax indictments, including that of Mr. Weiss, have been quashed...
...request of many of his patrons, George Kaska, manager of the Fine Arts, has secured a return engagement of "Man of Aran" and "Power...
...great majority, however, such a return to Cambridge is Impossible. While the spirit is willing, even eager, the flesh or the pocket-book or the conscience is weak, and the invitation to regress to the age of incipient maturity must be regretfully declined. For these it is that the annual meetings of the several Harvard Clubs are designed. These meetings bring together men with a great mutual bond, they serve to acquaint graduates of the University everywhere with the progress that is being made in Cambridge and with the changes that time is slowly effecting along the banks...
...remember; but without prejudice I say Mr. Santayana does not look at it anymore. He is glad that the Harvard Monthly has been revived and happily recalled that he contributed to the magazine when it was first founded many years ago. I asked him if he would over return to America again. And from there the conversation turned to the subject of "seasickness", bromide and the English Channel...