Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandonment of the business, I hoped the picture had shared the general dissolution as no one of the descendants was in a position to claim and house it. I thought often of the dear face and am deeply touched that its character should have found appreciation in your eyes. When I found in my Louis Untermeyer's anthology that you are the wife of Robinson Jeffers, I was grateful that a poet's intimate companion should have been the one to find the picture...
Many a politician in Washington, including some of Franklin Roosevelt's loyal friends, privately expressed themselves as more than content at his defeat. It would, they thought, make him examine his plans more carefully, lay out his legislative programs with more caution and most important, might prevent him from deciding lightly to run for a third term-a move which, successful or not, could hardly fail to cause a furor as perilous as that over the Court Bill. ¶ Much water has flowed under Brooklyn Bridge since that day five years ago when James J. Walker threw...
...coward, Policeman Kelly shoved his gun into its holster and grabbed the two blackamoors by their belts. Something struck him-a knife, he thought-jab, jab, jab, seven times in the left side. Something cut gash after gash in his face. He staggered outside, managed to make it around the corner to the police station...
Leftist General Miaja, increasingly a leader of the populace rather than an orthodox commander, evidently thought psychology would fight on the side of continuing to hold Brunete, however desperate the cost. With the sky full of battling pursuit ships and lumbering bombers, Leftists and Rightists spent the week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies...
Until he had been on the Jingalese throne 25 years, King John was just another rubber-stamp monarch who did as he was told. But sometimes he thought wistfully that it would be nice to know a little bit what it was all about. Or maybe just have a friend to talk to. Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently. He even went so far as to argue with a Cabinet minister, which upset him to the point where he fell down a stairway and knocked a bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered...