Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thought About You (Bluebird). Johnny Mercer's railroad ballad-probably the first from inside a Pullman-sung as low down as a tie-plate by Newcomer Dinah Shore...
...religious cult dedicated to Peace and practicing a mixture of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, and faith healing, the Fraternity will attempt to make Jean immortal, by bringing her up in an environment where death and disease (called the products of destructive thinking) are not mentioned or thought about. She will attend metaphysics classes from the start, will be a vegetarian as soon as she can be taken off her special formula...
...likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession by reading Midland Teacher, organ of the State Teachers' Association. She also likes to read fiction, recently read Drums Along the Mohawk and Grapes of Wrath. She thought Grapes of Wrath "too frank...
...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...
Carl Sandburg's method with Lincoln is to light up in every way possible the men and the problems he faced from week to week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week...