Word: tilles
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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...
...point of attack is often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...
...fainting from the room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...
...When Adam came back after the crash, she refused to sleep with him, pined for the days when "dere was always something it was time to do ... to tie de canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local-talent band which played The Star-Spangled Banner and Tipperary just alike, an open-air performance of Pinafore in thick flannel costumes meant for Alaska, sent...
Less whimsical, but equally sticktuitive are his present clients, who will keep him busy till November. Courier Wagner will then be free to join his wife in London, whence they will repair to Switzerland on their annual winter holiday...