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… with the mushy green spittle and the acrid stink that had accompanied the ostrich catcher’s habit for the day and night … of Aden. Deserts were the birthplaces of prophets but also the playgrounds of jinns and shape-shifters. He had … alight with brightly colored straw mats. Jama lay down obediently but couldn’t stop his eyes from roving around. “Do …

… in Washington, D.C., a blond and handsome man who was to become a World War II hero, a fighter pilot of exceptional … Another husband (they thought) was a poet. Avery’s mother died (she of the bookstore), and her father remarried. They … quite satisfied with them both, and with the evening. 126-131 By Alice Adams …

… the Industrial Workers of the World and the mine owners had complained that union activities interfered with “getting … speakers at Liberty Loan rallies openly called their audiences pro-German and threatened to denounce them to the … expelled from that body. What amounted to heresy trials were held all over the country, directed especially …

… was in Berlin a few months back for a concert featuring two compositions by Ernst Toch, my grandfather: a Cello Concerto … and I was taking advantage of a break in the rehearsals at the celebrated Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonic to … the pyre Close-pressed by the mob. Before the flames had died The taverns were full again, Baskets of olives and …

… through the columns of the London Nation, an open letter recommending a certain course of action with respect to the … that had brought about the Great War. Parallels may also be drawn between the public careers of the two men. If … what that purpose was it may be well to inquire as to the audience or rather the state of mind to which “Common Sense …