Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been afraid to talk up; the police have not been permitted to keep files on the beliefs of citizens. When the situation has been momentarily altered, as in the period which gave a neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because of the present hysteria it has been possible to give the jailing of the Communists a legal hale is irrelevant. An attack on liberty of expression can come through executive (loyalty board), legislative (Sullivan Bill...
...life, first writings and first loves of a writer. It is the recurrent theme of recent American literature, the story of Look Homeward, Angel, of Moon-Calf, A World I Never Made, The Genius, This Side of Paradise and innumerable other tales of sensitive, gifted and egocentric youth at war with the narrow constraints of American culture...
Lowell, a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, is the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute and is a former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs. He has also been a member of the Harvard War Memorial Committee...
...when men remembered the Maine, talked about Mr. Hearst's War, and got their hair cut for 35 cents, La Flamme's had a gas chandelier and wooden chairs. By the early '20's La Flamme's had to reckon with the crow cut, and installed electricity, new chairs, and linoleum floors...
There have been between seven and eight barbers since 1945. Two who left to go to war in 1941 returned four years later and resumed their posts. When a man comes to work for La Flamme's, he usually stays around a while. Of the present employees, Lombardi and Capolupo have been there 30 and 29 years respectively; the others have worked ten, ten, nine, nine, and three years. La Flamme's, in a way, grows on them...