Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anent President McKinley: "I visited the President a few days after the victory. McKinley said: 'When we received the cable from Admiral Dewey telling of the taking of the Philippines I looked up their location on the globe. I could not have told where those darned islands were within 2,000 miles...
...Anent Senator Platt: "Finally, facing Hanna, Herrick, and me, he (McKinley) said: 'There are some things in this world that come too high. If I cannot be President without promising to make Tom Platt Secretary of the Treasury, I will never be President...
MINNIE-The usual Cinderella story anent the transformation of Minnie, the ugly duckling, into Minnie, the bird of Paradise, thanks to truelove and a permanent wave...
...recent numbers of the Bulletin I have observed, with some amusement, not unmingled with sorrow, the palpitant emotion of certain contributors to its columns anent the alarming tendency of preparatory school graduates to choose for matriculation other colleges than Harvard. The glamor of athletic supremacy, which for some years has been Harvard's, has not, apparently, resulted in an increase of applicants for admission--far from it, if the latest figures from Andover and Exeter are to be believed. And yet, does not the remedy for this condition lie in Harvard's own hands...