Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first chapter of "We Accept With Pleasure" is a model chapter, it is understood. Last spring the prolific Mr. De Voto lectured his students on what material a novelist should employ in the opening chapter. "I've read novel after novel handed in for English 31, but never have I found a really balanced opener," he declared, and to illustrate his point, read off a piece he said was written by a close friend of his. "This is the first which covers all the essential points...
...What do you know about that? I've had just about every thing else in here but never one of these," he remarked to the lady who had brought in the tortoise. She had come asking for a professor who would tell her more about the shelled creature, which she said was "very clean and has the run of the house...
Twinkle, twinkle little star No matter who or what you are You've never twinkled like you "twink" tonight- Our sister stars and brother stars Along with all the other stars There's never been a starry night so bright...
...rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat naíve henchmen then revealed a fact?utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...