The Publishers Weekly, Volume 147F. Leypoldt, 1945 - American literature |
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Page 1727 - ONCE riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue and called me, "Nigger.
Page 1637 - Violations. Any person who wilfully violates any provision of this order, or who, in connection with this order, wilfully conceals a material fact or furnishes false information to any department or agency of the United States, is guilty of a crime, and upon conviction may be punished by fine or imprisonment.
Page 1627 - We all know that books burn— yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
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Page 1627 - It is more important that your work should go on now than it has ever been at any other time in our history: in a very literal sense you carry upon your bookshelves the light that guides civilization.
Page 1655 - The nation is quickly saddened again by the death of Ernie Pyle. No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.
Page 1725 - It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, " and never was there a more practical antidote to despair.
Page 1636 - Tne undersigned purchaser certifies, subject to the penalties of section 35 (A) of the United States Criminal Code, to the seller and to the War Production Board, that...
Page 1492 - Journal: Second Session of the Council and Related Documents of the First Session Montreal, Canada, September 15 to £7, 1944.
Page 1275 - Perhaps a collection of the conjure stories [which had been appearing in the Atlantic Monthly without any indication that the author was Negro] might be undertaken by the firm with a better prospect of success. I was in the hands of my friends," Chesnutt goes on, "and I submitted the collection.