Word: tilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilson was right. It was a war to make the world safe for democracy. But the war was never finished. It still has to be fought till one side or the other is licked. . . . There is no mercy in the philosophy of those who believe that the natural law that permits those animals to survive who are strongest in cunning and physical might also applies to the races and nations of men. Under such a slogan all destruction of cities and innocent non-combatants is justified, for each child is a potential enemy in their eyes...
...political conventions. She went to both in 1936, then went coast-to-coasting in a fifth-hand Buick. To understand the Americans a little better she stopped at tourist homes at night and helped with the dishes next morning. WVS takes all her time now on a 9:45-till-anytime schedule. Her London house is closed and when she sleeps she sleeps in a West End hotel, the name of which is known only...
...Yankees were not quite their normal selves; but just wait till next year. All this, however, it is not a good thing. Cincinnati must come through; it must win four out of five games. A rookie pitcher must start the ball rolling today and his team must score a run sooner or later. Drastic measures may have to be taken if things start breaking badly. If all fails, Kenesaw Mountain Landis should set up the Western Hemisphere Series and conform to the feeling of the times. Let the damn Yankees keep their title and send the Red Sox against Cincinnati...
...squad turned out for practice yesterday but the little information could be gathered then as to the calibre of the team, for the turnout was incomplete. Carr led the team through an easy practice in fundamentals heading and trapping and then dismissed them till today, when a larger squad is expected...
...barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such ghostly patrons as Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, David Warfield, Lew Dockstader and the Madison Wheelmen, while a good, corny music-hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics as She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured, My Mother Was a Lady, Throw Him Down Mc-Closkey...