Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she brought him his meals and mail, Jim told her she was "sweet" and "beautiful, & had mighty nice clothes and a pretty voice; Lulu Belle was glad. He said he guessed he'd die in the State's gas chamber; Lulu Belle was heartstricken. He said if only she would help him escape he'd go to church, be a good boy, come back for her in time. Lulu Belle believed...
When death came to his Aunt Sue, of whom he was very fond, he recalls: "I strove to bury sorrow in work, continuing my investigations of the various rots of the sweet potato." Some cuttings from The World Was My Garden...
...Girls' School", which concerns sweet-young-things-preparing-to-become-flowers-of-society, it has everything: love, hate, jealousy, and pathos. Verily, it has everything...
...popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...