Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furiously on, spoke M. Briand. For half an hour he conversed at breakneck speed in a low tone. Dr. Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...
...Chicago, anent the proposed opera house, Samuel Insull, patron, said: "In my absence abroad much was said about the great opera-house plans. This great enterprise already stands completed in the imagination of many. I wish it were all true, but there is still much work to be done and a matter of some $20,000,000 must be provided...
...greatly amused at Hester May Root's twoddle anent John Coolidge in TIME, April...
...many students, if any, were beguiled by the appeliation of "cultured young American" into answering the questionnaires anent the modern girl sent out recently by a New York daily, will never be known; nor what heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration...
Therefore let there be violins and, for this once, even let there be saxaphones. Tonight a Gothic gaiety envelops Cambridge. The Gothic we have always with as hat the gaiety that we owe to the ladies. As Tiny Tim observed anent something or other God bless them every...