Word: courier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...
...Wales; Shelley's desertion of Harriet for Mary (Frankenstein) Godwin, and Harriet's suicide ; his inheritance of a fortune; their last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned, now he knows whether there is a God or no." Wrote Leigh Hunt: "But Shelley, my divine-minded friend-your friend-the friend of the Universe-he has perished at sea! ... God bless...
...jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
Inconclusive as this battle of words was, it proved that Election Day had brought no truce between the New Deal and the press, and it set up a line along which they might be preparing to fight it out. Said Editor Herbert Agar of the pro-Roosevelt Louisville Courier-Journal: "If I understand the Secretary correctly, I do not think he has a strong point. There is a lot to say against the press, but the fact that it is against an individual does not prove it is not free...
Morgan, his friend, the "elderly and well preserved Mrs. Douglas," her duenna and a cadging Italian courier. Mr. Morgan, said Mr. Fry, was rude everywhere. When, off Ancona, a choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies...