Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.W.A. said that it would soon start an inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
...after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...
Science seems to have been skeptical. Then Lawrence wrote to say that he had decided to emigrate to Florida, with his wife and "several young people," including his Armenian disciple, Dmitri Kouyoumdjian, to "start a new life in a new spirit. Won't you come . . . too?" he begged, "& be president of us?" But Bertie apparently wouldn't budge; and the British government refused Lawrence a passport. Disciple Kouyoumdjian was also a disappointment: he changed both his mind and his name, stayed on in England and became "Michael Arlen" of a bestseller called The Green...
Baby-Face & Sugar-Daddy. Lawrence took only a few more stabs at Bertie. "What's the good of living as you do?" he complained. "Why don't you drop overboard? . . . Do become a creature instead of a mechanical instrument . . . start at the very beginning and be a perfect baby . . . Oh, and I want to ask you, when you make your will, do leave me enough to live on . . . My love to you. Stop working and being an ego . . . Are you still cross...
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