Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In her lyrics, Hay tries to show up the "human sham" by making candid modern mention of it. But since her verses proclaim the sham "natural" they merely give publicity to what they set out to expose.
In Huntsman, What Quarry?, her latest book, Millay presents the public with a selection from the lyrics she has been working on for several years. There are not many of them, nor is there anything particularly new about them. Millay still maintains her stoic enthusiasm for disappointed and disgusted love...
¶After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform.
¶Editor Frank Cobb of the old New York World tells what Woodrow Wilson told him the night before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany: would mean that we should lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong . . . that a majority of people...
Such a peace cannot be tossed off as mere surrender. It is a peace based on solid reality. The restoration of the old Poland is an utter impossibility, come what may. The war would be ended now not in the light of what should be done but in the light...