Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who want to stay on the French Riviera, the University of Aix Marseille offers courses in French language, literature and civilization at the coastal towns of Cannes and Nice. English and American literature will also be taught. The summer session begins in the middle of July and lasts till September...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
...songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar, It's a Lovely Day Today, Love and Marriage and Memories Are Made of This...
...work cleaning up the Indian community, founded a cooperative educational farm and instructed the Indians in sanitation. Later, when he was doing the same type of service in India, he washed the latrines before a meeting of independence leaders, and drily asked why they should "wait till the advent of swarai (self-rule) for the neccessary drain-cleaning...