Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke and he will laugh. Offer him an idea and he will develop it. Put him in the middle of a problem and he will begin to solve it. The doors of his mind swing easily ajar. That is why he left Exeter (1888) and Harvard (1892), to become a good reporter (and later, a good copy reader) on the New York Tribune. And why in 1902, he could bring order out of the chaos of an importing and exporting house which became Lamont, Corliss & Co. (agents...
...perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author Proust, woman-reared, was olive-skinned, black-haired, heavy-eyed, slender...
...graft; the President's son is Director of the system of State gambling. General Crowder was passionately opposed to the Lottery. A bill, doubling the number of agencies and making the appointees serve for life, was passed by the Congress, Zayas vetoed it, with the left eye slightly ajar; it was immediately passed over his head, in the Senate by a unanimous vote...