Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several little Mussolinis have had any softening effect on his political methods or tempered his jowly egotism with a sense of humor. The most power-crazy and pitiless of all the iron-chewers, Stalin, has taken time off from purging to marry twice and beget a daughter,* still in her teens, but if his love for her has made him go down on his hands and knees and say "Woof, woof!", we are not getting the straight dope from Russia these days...
...stand she testified: "I do not know how much money I gave away, but I think I gave away most of it." Day after the case was settled she resigned as a trustee. The settlement and her charities practically wiped out her capital but she still had the income...
...citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...felt the need of exercising such faculties, has such faculties. The person who reads a poem for the right reasons is asking the poet to help him to accentuate these faculties, and to provide him with an occasion for exercising them." In spite of this illuminating introduction, readers will still find her poems difficult. The main difficulty for U. S. readers will probably be that she writes in a language in which every word carries its fullest literate meaning. For this reason, language that would seem clear in Shakespeare or Mother Goose may seem obscure in Laura Riding...
...still. She says...