Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, as the rains continued, the worst thing of all happened. One of St. Lucia's mountains simply cracked open, sent a high wall of rich, loose loam rushing down neighboring valleys with a terrifying roar...
When O. Louis Guglielmi was young his violinist father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...hand. Actually Odets has most of the time carried the Group on his back. His have been the Group's only recent successful plays. When Paradise Lost was choking to death, Odets broke his pledge about not succumbing to Hollywood, went there at $2,500 a week, sent back money to keep the play and the Group going. Again, in the summer of 1937. when the Group existed in name only-its leading actors and its one remaining director were all in Hollywood-Odets came through with the script of Golden Boy, and like a Pied Piper led everybody...
...London Mrs. Neville Chamberlain reluctantly admitted that she had sent one of her husband's old shirts to a U. S. shirt collector. Said she: "If it gets about that 1 am giving away his clothes there would be no end to it. Why, he would very soon have no clothes left...
...United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...