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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

MARCH 
13 
FRIDAY

Rainy. I went to school. 
Mr. + Mrs. Weiz came for 
supper + brought us a 
blooming pink [[strikethrough]] azalya [[/strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]] azalea [[/strikethrough]] azalea!!!! 
There was a blackout from 
8:00 P.M. to 12:00 so we 
turned off all the lights, 
blacked out the kitchen 
with blankets so we could 
turn the lights on, and 
stayed in the living room 
with a fire in the fireplace 
+ curtains pulled down. 
We had a good supper—
good meat especially. 
I had my piano lesson (
I was good) from 5 to 6pm. 
(got there at 5, got home at 6)

"What signifies sadness; a man grows lean upon it"—MACKENZIE

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MOVIE $-$

DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

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The movie cost 40¢. I now have $.35¢ in my saving money [[/left margin]]

Cloudy + Rainy.  After working 
part of the morning (I started 
singing again, piano practicing 
1 1/2 hr. + homework—war 
poster ↓

[[image of poster]]
DON'T HOARD
The US needs all
we can spare
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← hoarding hats
← All printed 
evenly (of 
course)
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↑Sugar on it + other [[logs?]]

[[Left margin]] I cut out a lot 
of pictures for 
the scrap book 
I am going to 
get. [[/Left margin]]

I went to the movies at 
the Arlington Theatre (at 
Columbia Pike—1 block from 
our school—T.J.) with Dolores 
+ saw "Seargant York" starring 
Gary Cooper. It was about 
a mountain boy who was made 
to join the army in the last 
war it was a great hero. 
It was good. I saw it almost 
twice. I There was news review + 
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a detective story starring Jack Holt too.
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"No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue"—SIR P. SIDNEY