Word: evenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to see the palace turned into a home for people fallen on evil days at the end of their lives. If they had ten bob [$2] a week-or even less-they could come here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that...
...doctor entered. They agreed that alcohol was a bad thing. Curtain, followed by Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by a male quartet. Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk. Old Joe Sharp, having D. T.s-he had snakes in his sleeves, even in his boots (see cut). As he slouched off, the boys said: "We've been over to Alma Temple and signed the pledge and joined the Dry Legion Crusaders. We shall never drink a drop, and when we're old enough we are going to vote the wicked...
...Charles finally sat down and wrote a book* showing how nice and refined the Shaws were, how they had a proper schooling, visited in high-class homes, Did Things in the world, had knights in the family. One of them was even immortalized (titteringly) in Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe...
...newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...
Professor Buros' harrowing adventures began even before he had got his book to press. Most tests are marketed by commercial publishers, yield handsome profits to publishers and authors. When they had seen pre-publication copies of his book, some publishers began to appeal to Mr. Buros "in the name of common decency" to stop the presses. A distraught publisher: "Now, Oscar! Is this sporting? . . . During my four years of service in the United States Marine Corps and later during my service . . . with the A. E. F., it never occurred to me that I would ever be called upon...