1930

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Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Private Lives

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Directed by Noël Coward. Performed by Noël Coward and Adrianne Allen and Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. 1930, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Methuen Drama, 2023, act 3.

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Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

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Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald

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MacDonald, Ramsay. Observer. 4 May 1930.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

J.P. Morgan

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Morgan, John Pierpont. Quoted in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, written by Owen Wister. Macmillan, 1930.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 9.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard. William Heinemann/Garden City Publishing Co., 1930.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale. Vintage, 2000.

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Jeans, James. The Mysterious Universe. Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1930, ch. 1.

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Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. T. Butterworth/C. Scribner's Sons, 1930, ch. 9.

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Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1930, ch. 11.

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Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

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Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.