Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflicts on men a total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...
...them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
...week's end Aries Is Rising and Ring Two were dead & buried, I Know What I Like was in a coma...
...made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States," said the caller slowly, "appear of my own volition before this Committee of the Senate to say that I, of my own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any of my family hold treasonable communication with the enemy." He went away. Speechless, the Committee adjourned...