Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans carried small or side arms with the express authority of the Mexican Area Commander, for protective use in a wilderness area...
...four of the would-be suicides were willing to give "reasons." The largest number, 36, blamed "sweetheart trouble." But the researchers noted dryly that "frustrated lovers as a rule do not use effectual methods of suicide." The next largest number, 20, blamed alcohol. Other explanations listed: delusions, 9; family trouble, 7; neurotic complaints, 7; a feeling of "impending disaster," 6; a desire to show off, 6; shame for something they had done, 3; poor housing, 1; "just depressed...
...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...
Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...
...girdles ("the engine-room bell was clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...