Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have your staff take the trouble to go back over the newspaper files, you will find that I was attacked almost daily by Senators, Congressmen and so-called patriotic societies because I would not issue "atrocity" stories and refused at all times to preach hate...
...went on 'Hitler will die on . . . (varying dates according to the version of the story).' The driver, now thoroughly scared, put her uncomfortable passenger out at the next corner and drove on. She was stopped at the next crossroads by a policeman who asked her to take a badly injured man to the hospital. She could not well refuse and the policeman and casualty got into the back seat. On the way to the hospital the man died...
...True, circumstances have forced him to dig up a few bouquets to toss at this year's team and "the Major," but his apparent reluctance to do so and his "scoop" discovery of Tennessee as a major league team have forced this constant reader of TIME to take up his pen and write his first letter to an editor...
...learning. The Council's five broad survey courses bear a close relation to the new fields of concentration envisaged by the Faculty committee. The professors now working on the "area" project would find that the Student Council is in agreement with them as to the direction Harvard education must take. If anyone is going to act on the Council's report, they are the ones...
Just how much can a man take? Just how long can a man compromise with his ideals before he rears up on his launches and starts shooting? Those are questions of extraordinary vitality in a world which seems to contain no ideals worth shooting or dying for. Maxwell Anderson apparently believes there still are a few left. To prove it he has written a play called "Key Largo" which tells the saga of a young idealist who broke with his faith to live,--and returned...