Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pantaloons knows more about what is real and important than all you old spectacled people in your institutions and academies. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. I am imaginary. That is to exist, I should certainly think. I am dreamed of and I appear. Everything is only dream, Mr. Philosopher and as nobody ever dreams about the dry things you say they never really exist...
...Buckingham Palace garden parties Their Majesties have marquees run up in case of bad weather, receive with undiminished graciousness under canvas. Last week Tokyo flunkies rushed about the palace garden in jittery excitement while guests huddled under trees. It kept on raining and Their Majesties simply did not appear. With an estimated $200,000 worth of silken kimonos sodden and streaked, Japanese socialites slipped quietly away, but most foreign guests as they departed made audible remarks...
...that time another disturbing element had arisen. At the desks, where only Yankees had sat before, well-scrubbed Irish faces began to appear. Close on the heels of the Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...
...clock sounds, more preoccupied intellectuals-for-a-day appear on the sidewalk, nervously testing the points of their pencils or considering the ink supply of their fountain pens; some glance momentarily at crumpled sets of notes, then thrust them back into their pockets, apparently overwhelmed by the immensity of knowledge and the frailty...
Arthur Szathmary '37 will play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...