Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen nothing of this trouble in our newspapers. Did it occur? Did we have a voluntary censorship in this case, or is German propaganda so unbelievably crude as to broadcast domestic items to us which are untrue and which can be easily checked...
Continuing her independent attitude toward the war, bone-dry, Virginia-born Lady Astor-who has so far: 1) demanded that boys under 20 be exempt from conscription; 2) seen her four sons (all over 20) join up-this week carried on. She planned to press the British Government to reintroduce the "Dutch Treat" rule of World War I, which, forcing people to buy their own drinks, protected men and women on duty "against hospitality by the public...
...wildest week he had seen since he became President of the New York Stock Exchange in July 1938, steady, youthful William McChesney Martin Jr. went on the air, more to sound a warning to reckless speculators than to felicitate brokers on sudden prosperity. Said he: "The Exchange . . . requires that every company listing securities on this market provide essential information as to its operations, earnings and financial condition in order that this may be available for the investor. May I appeal to you earnestly to avail yourself of this factual material...
...ritif hour, smoking a short pipe and, "what was considered most outrageous of all," smoking it bowl downwards. During the Paris Commune, Rimbaud picketed his native shops, shouting: "Beware! Your hour is at hand! Order is vanquished!" When Poet Verlaine, who admired Rimbaud's verse without having seen Rimbaud, sent him a ticket to Paris, nobody was sorry...
Rimbaud shocked Verlaine's respectable family at once by getting Verlaine drunk every night. When Verlaine's wife found on Rimbaud's pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses...