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Vol. 031 Issue 006 (December 1 1939)
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Vol. 031 Issue 007 (December 8 1939)
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THE WEEK
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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,...
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EGGS AND ORANGES AND GERMANY
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Kirkpatrick, Doris
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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...
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ACCENT ON PEACE
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Brégy, Katherine
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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...
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NATURE AT THE HEARTHSIDE
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Thompson, Frederic
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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...
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TWO SMALL BOYS (Verse)
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Schmidt, Alex R.
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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...
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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 1939
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Editors, The
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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...
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HOW THE IRISHMAN TALKS
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O'Faolain, Sean
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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...
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RELUCTANCE (Verse)
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Carleton, Sara King
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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,...
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VIEWS AND REVIEWS
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Williams, Michael
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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;...
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COMMUNICATIONS
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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...
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THE STAGE
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Vernon, Grenville
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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...
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THE SCREEN
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Hartung, Philip T.
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"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...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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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:...
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THE INNER FORUM
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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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Vol. 031 Issue 008 (December 15 1939)
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Vol. 031 Issue 009 (December 22 1939)
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Vol. 031 Issue 010 (December 29 1939)
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