Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Velvet Glove, There are two ways to play the Dictator. One may adopt the thundering voice and the imperial scowl like Benito Mussolini and his unsuccessful imitator Adolf Hitler, or one may pull the wires of diplomacy with the velvet gloves of a Metternich or Machiavelli. Soft-spoken General von Schleicher prefers velvet gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform...
Founded in 1839, Hollins was Virginia's first chartered institution for young ladies, first in the U. S. to adopt an elective system of studies, first to establish an English department under a full professor. It has some 8,000 alumnae, including Adviser to the Lovelorn Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer). First president of Hollins was Charles Lewis Cocke, member of an old Virginia family, professor at Richmond College. Hollins became more & more in his debt until in 1900 the college was deeded to him. The following year he died. His daughter Matty L. Cocke became president...
...Yours is the only known club in this country acting in such a fashion and we feel that your future tournaments will be more successful and our stay with you more pleasant if you will adopt a different attitude toward the men who play the game...
Outside the U. S. the man who owns a motor car is ipso facto assumed to be rich. In Europe and in South America automobile clubs are the acme of smartness.* Last week rich & smart Germans were profoundly stirred by the decision of their National Automobile Club to adopt as its Patron "His Imperial and Royal Majesty Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia...
...suitable for one-syllable prose, has diligently deprived it of whatever romantic aspects it may once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt to dissuade him, Slag attacks his ward...