Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really interested in worldwide threats to our religious institutions and to our freedom of thought, we can at present find alarming examples of religious persecution in Nazi Germany," the petitioners say. "In Germany to our amazement, persecution of Jews, Roman Catholics, and Protestants has been bitter and persistent...
FRESH from his enviable success with his two great biographies "The Great Mouthpiece" and "Timber Line," Gene Fowler turns again to the novel with a brilliant piece of writing in "Salute to Yesterday." The book is the fruit of matured thought over the last six years. Its substance is a delving into the past of the Rocky Mountains and the rugged characters who were bound up in the pioneering days of the west...
...every available cent on a stock then selling at $9. In two weeks he sold it at $28.75. This was the peak and a few days later the stock was back to $9. Douglas had a fat profit but his analytical mind shuddered over the thought of what might have happened...
...open-country fighting: advancing, dropping back, advancing again, sometimes in big attacks where tanks and armored cars accompanied the troops and enemy bombers retaliated in force ("I had been waiting to feel frightened, but each time the bombs fell before I knew, and then when it was over I thought that I had only felt excited"); sometimes in minor engagements where their only objective would be a patch of woods across a ploughed field, but where men would be killed as dead as anywhere else in the taking or losing of it. It was not until the whole army halted...
...first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five, is the story of a London newspaperman who discovers in his dead wife's diary after ten years of ostensibly happy marriage, a clashing, paranoiac manifesto of what she really thought...