Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American who once had a drink with him perhaps. The hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found out himself) and from then on it is just "madder music and stronger wine" until he is carried in a state of delirium tremens and general paralysis of the insane onto the returning boat. The man who does not get the best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about...
...from shooting out their political differences, the stage for Civil War was set. The Cabinet's radical Minister of Labor, only recently a jailbird, took to locking up Madrid employers and keeping them in jail until they yielded to the demands of their striking employes. The Left, feeling stronger, every day in its purpose to maneuver the Republic into a Soviet, then offered great provocation: the assassination of the leader of the Right, Don José Calvo Sotelo...
...tear. To test the safety-toe caps of miners' boots, a cake of paraffin is put in the toe and an iron weight dropped from a height of 4 ft. on the boot tip. If the cake shows any signs of flattening, the manufacturer makes the toe cap stronger...
Anthony Thorne looks not unlike Richard Halliburton, and both have the endearing faculty of telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well...
...nursed her passion for Ashley through the hard War years, was determined to get him in the end. But Ashley's love for Melanie grew stronger, and both became quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed...