Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe me, nowadays we are (the few Hungarians who are lucky enough to know your beautiful language) hungry to read articles like the one mentioned above, and if we get a fresh copy of your magazine, the first thing is to turn the pages till we come to Foreign News...
...gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the whole thing...
...loved you, would it be a silly thing...
...become a movie star." Parson McClung took counsel with himself, finally told his flock he would stay with it. Said he tearfully: "I never intended to do anything wrong. . . . The opportunity would have given me much leisure time to do church work. I . . . thought it was the proper thing to do, especially when I would start at a salary ranging from $125 to $1,000 a week." Last Sunday Preacher McClung took his mind off might-have-beens by starting a revival. His subject: "Little Things...
...shocking it blew its gifted author into literary oblivion. One of the best war stories in U. S. fiction, the first and one of the best realistic portraits of a young American girl, the slyest commentary on the difference in romantic Southern and Northern ways of doing the same thing, it was also one of the greatest failures in U. S. publishing. The book went out of print; the blonde and charming Miss Ravenel was forgotten, along with her dashing but dishonest Colonel Carter; their creator, John William De Forest of New Haven, who died in 1906, became a footnote...