Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring sweet-smelling flowers and put them in water...
Malraux's novels have little of the slack, humble, half-awake ordinariness in which so much of life is spent, still less of the habitual round of domestic squabbles and pleasures that make peace sweet for most men. They deal with war, and usually with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting...
...when it forged down to the Deacon two yard line in the final stanza, but was unable to score. A double pass play beginning on the Eliot 40 when Don Brew tested a long one to wing Bill Eyler, was stretched out down to the Kirkland ten on a sweet lateral from Eyler to Johnny Grant...
...Such Sweet Compulsion-Greystone Press...
That the New Deal was eager to turn the apples of discord into sweet cider further appeared when Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson summoned four utility bigwigs to Washington to discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...