Word: stark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lying down, stark naked, he rested until an assistant saw that unconsciousness was only a few moments away, rushed in with warm blankets, warm drinks. Last week at Yale Sir Joseph recounted his observations thus : "Nature dictates, as you all know, that the body temperature should remain approximately constant at 98.6° Fahrenheit...
...only from an enlightened sports of peaceable compromise and free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed of the very rich and the very poor, that the original government rested upon a very small base of the middle-class...
...tale revolves around Johnnie Stark, a petty gangster who fought with razors, picked up one girl after another, married, led his gang against the gangs of other slum districts, was eventually killed when hoodlums caught him without his weapons. His story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath...
...determined effort "to rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers and social workers" who entered the wilderness of Gorbols, improved conditions so much that desperadoes like Johnnie Stark could no longer flourish there...
...usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory...