Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer pay for some of the essentials she must buy outside the country...
...that self I wish to show...
...well, that self you know...
...last, the self I really...
Countrified. Weaver's citified verse offers the general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet...