Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pompey Hollow's 19 families had lined up with Miss De Lee, petitioned the State Department of Education to remove their trustee. For his part, Mr. Armstrong bolstered his case by a new list of grievances. Miss De Lee had been insubordinate. She recited the wrong version of the Lord's Prayer. She forbade the singing of "America." She arrived late and slept during school hours. She kept animals in the schoolroom. She taped the lips of naughty pupils...
...materials for the first six houses arrived. Few weeks later some of them had been set up. The reason for what happened next has never been satisfactorily explained. An official version is that the managers, who had counted at first on average-size families, suddenly decided to give preference to oversize ones. Another story is that Mrs. Roosevelt, who has made frequent visits to Reedsville, took a look at the little square cabins and decided they were not good enough for her pet project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only...
...Realmleader Hitler maintains a standing threat to sue anyone who makes available in a foreign language the full text of his war-breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have foreigners...
Obviously, a work which requires of its readers much leisure cannot be presented in other than skeleton form within the conventional stage-time limit. But for those who might regard acquaintance with the bare story of Crime and Punishment as a social accomplishment, its present dramatic version may be recommended as a convenient "trot...
...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...