Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief elucidations on the Seventh Day Adventists, see RELIGION, p. 19.-ED. Anent Footnotes...
...Veni, vidi, vici," has been supposed by wags to have been originally uttered not anent the conquest of Gaul, but on the occasion of one of his innumerable youthful female conquests...
...Sirs: Anent Governor Smith's recent visit to a, certain parochial school up in the Bronx (See TIME, June 28, p. 8, col. 2) and his unusual greeting (or has it developed into a form which might be termed other than unusual) the incident should claim more than a passing significance. Here the child mind is being developed in order that he may become a useful and patriotic citizen...
Replying to questions anent the revolutionary outburst in Spain (TIME, July 5) Alfonso rapped out: "If there were grave troubles in Spain, do you think I would be here...
Ever tactful, the Beatissimus Pater bore in mind last week taut-waisted d' Annunzio's scorn of fat men when he despatched to him a communication anent the "monastery" : ". . . I will allow you ten monks picked from among the thinnest in all Italy...