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IssueVol. 031 Issue 006 (December 1 1939)
IssueVol. 031 Issue 007 (December 8 1939)
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Paid articleTHE WEEK
How to Cultivate One's Garden ONE TRAGIC likelihood is this: the present war, which so far has seemed far less cataclysmic than the last, far less destructive, deadly and menacing to life,...
Paid articleEGGS AND ORANGES AND GERMANY
Kirkpatrick, Doris
WHEN I hear over the radio that German women are standing in line before the food shops waiting for their meager ration I think of that year I spent in Berlin. A baby needs an egg and an orange...
Paid articleACCENT ON PEACE
Brégy, Katherine
THERE IS always a temptation, in a world shaken by the cataclysm of war, to wonder whether the arts and graces of life are worth while—to forget that they are even part of the heritage war...
Paid articleNATURE AT THE HEARTHSIDE
Thompson, Frederic
ADREARY WASTE of words gets between covers on the general subject of nature; but as in nature itself, there are oases, some enchanting islands and garden spots. The most rhapsodic writing, what...
Paid articleTWO SMALL BOYS (Verse)
Schmidt, Alex R.
A man-child stacks his arms, home from the lists, A tired, sweating, earth-stained manikin, Weighed with the spoils of play, his grimy fists Tight-crammed with the outdoors he has brought in. A...
Paid articleBOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 1939
Editors, The
THE OBJECTIVE and subjective process behind this Christmas listing will be kept closely secret. The major defect may be that a reader will never know whether a title is omitted through ignorance...
Paid articleHOW THE IRISHMAN TALKS
O'Faolain, Sean
LAST WEEK I was down in the County Mayo. I met the inevitable Gaelic scholiast. He was obscure in his references, and the fact that he had only three teeth in his upper jaw did not make his...
Paid articleRELUCTANCE (Verse)
Carleton, Sara King
Spring is too sudden for the heart, Which seeks to set each joy apart. Which longs to save, however brief, The misty green of bud and leaf. Which would retain the flowering world In petals,...
Paid articleVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Williams, Michael
THE THREATENED general strike in the movie industry, it seems, has been averted, although its possibility remains as a future threat, not only in the world of moviedom, but in other industries;...
Paid articleCOMMUNICATIONS
FIFTEEN YEARS "The Commonweal" appreciates the opportunity of publishing this communication from John F. McCormick, who was Business Manager for so many years. It deals with an aspect of the...
Paid articleTHE STAGE
Vernon, Grenville
Key Largo MAXWELL ANDERSON'S latest play is a tragedy of the loss of faith—not religious faith, but faith in any meaning or belief in life. King McCleod is a radical who in Spain joins the...
Paid articleTHE SCREEN
Hartung, Philip T.
"Winter of Our Discontent" IF THE goriest passages in English history are your favorites, j'ou'll be sold on Universal's new film, "Tower of London," which is really an illustrated outline of...
Paid articleBOOKS OF THE WEEK
Hollywood's Business Foremost Films of 1938, by Frank Vreeland. New York: Pitman Publishing Company. $3.50. Let's Go to the Movies, by TFilliam Clayton Pryor and Helen Sloman Pryor. New York:...
Paid articleTHE INNER FORUM
ONE HUNDRED bishops and archbishops attended the annual meeting of the American hierarchy at Washington, D. C , in late November, held in conjunction with a celebration of the 150th anniversary...
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IssueVol. 031 Issue 010 (December 29 1939)
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