Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trumpet, they bellow and they bawl! Peanuts here, get you peanuts here!" Vag collected a few bags of peanuts, feeling a little better about things in general. At least the elephants couldn't pester him the way the fat lady did! Billy was not so excited about the elephants, thought. In fact, when Vag lifted him up so he could see better, he protested violently that he could see all right on his own feet. He wasn't that small...
With the French Revolution and the battle of Waterloo rumbling in the background, "He Was Born Gay" is a fantasy woven about the legend of the Last Dauphin. Written by Emlyn Williams, staged by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the leadership of Jock Munroe, the play shows thought and skill on the part of the writer, director, and cast. Rough edges were smothed, the surface polished, and the performance was well-rounded and unified...
...Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
From the first, Stevens saw that the Civil War would be a long war, ridiculed the statesmen who thought the South would be exhausted in six months, urged that it be "laid waste," "depopulated," "planted with a new race of freemen." He saw that slavery was the basic economic and military weapon of the South, might be similarly exploited by the North, insistently urged the freeing of the slaves...
Britain's Singapore base looked impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...