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...Beckham's very interesting class in what amounted to "Naval Indoctrination for the Bashful D.O." or "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad G.A.O.?," we have found our usually overflowing letter-box (damn those girls) even more super-saturated as bewildered ex-Seniors turn to the Lucky Bag for succour in hour of DEspair. Bear with us as we quote a few of the missives rec'd:--Dear Carpet (or is it Lucky...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

...ambulance driver! In other words, I rattle round pitch dark streets in a three-ton furniture pantechnicon. God help my poor bloody patients. I bet I cause more casualties than I succour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Friends, an immediate succour for this, my treasure! Procure me now, obtain me now, fragrant scent, purest balsam, with speed of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operas in English | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...many. Is it that after the lucid history of centuries the reason, the merit, the meaning, the value of art is still doubtful? Remembering Greece, and Athens that should make Rome vital, and Byzantium that should trumpet Italy out of stupid darkness, and the Latin Renaissance that should succour Europe even to the present moment, can any pen deny those who would look upon football as a momentary spectacle and upon beauty as an eternal grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/8/1921 | See Source »

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