Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgarians] want to be treated as a cobelligerent, but so far as Great Britain is concerned they must work their passage for a long time and in no uncertain fashion before we can accord them a special status, in view of the injuries our Allies in Greece and Yugoslavia sustained at their hands. Meanwhile, let them march and destroy all the Germans they can find in enemy lands. We do not want them in the lands of the Allies...
Will Clayton was not alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell-shaped Mayor LaGuardia nut-shelled all the complaints; he told a Senate committee that the bill could be fixed by "one little amendment. Strike out every thing after the enacting clause...
...time. Excerpt: They have revived a brutal way of living-Of murder, and pillaging and fire . . . Their covenants they tear to tiny shreds. To Thee who knows their inmost rage and cunning We pray with anguished hearts and heads laid low. Thou who their inmost souls and thoughts can view, Forgive them not-they know well what they...
...life and the spare common sense of his words. With the earnings of The Flowering of New England he built a square white brick house on the top of an isolated hill four miles from Westport, Conn. It has high ceilings, soft-toned walls, many windows, large rooms, a view of the Sound, books, comfortable chairs and the pictures collected by a writer who, liking artists, says "they are just like writers without the nonsense...
...stirred up his pupils by taking them to theaters, whorehouses, insane asylums, wakes, where they startled those present by climbing on chairs or stretching out on the floor to get a novel point of view. Out of this free-style approach came some spectacular work, part of it by artists now nationally known in Mexico. One outstanding Reyes graduate is the water-colorist and engraver, José Maria Servin...