Word: happier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grimmest fact was that in event of a real war, no imagination would be needed, and eight days would be a long stretch in Hell. When hostilities suspended, the fleet sailed into Pearl Harbor and Honoluluans turned to happier thoughts as 8,000 officers & men came ashore on leave...
Anyway, it's happier to think of other things: Tonight I go to Sicily, I hear there's a small town on a mountain top where they still speak Greek and drink a kind of a liquor which originated in Homer's time and do Greek dances and take you in and give you their best bread if only you'll tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis...
...signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because we are dissatisfied with your work, you are dissatisfied with us, and I am convinced you will be happier elsewhere." He was given an extra month's pay ($295) which Guild lawyers made him refuse...
...largest public utility group, the C. P. D. E. (Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Electricite). Its advertising booklets were among the first to recognize the talents of U. S. photographer Man Ray. The company has sponsored many younger architects and artists, but no choice could be happier for a monumental exhibition mural than vivacious, talented Raoul Dufy...
...cancer. Because perhaps whatever ancestral desire I have to explore the unknown is appealed to by the research work and the wish to be a 'crusader,' which almost all of us have, is given a chance to express itself. Finally, because I believe that Americans will be happier and saner if they combine in fighting a scourge like cancer than they will be if they continue to fight each other for money and power...