Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George V's reign, and wanted to take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy to nominate these guests officially and in so doing assume responsibility for their behavior and character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told of the doctrine that "His Majesty's Government do not wish to be asked" such favors. They could be asked, but the Embassy must not risk a snub...
Aviatrix Sophie Mary Peirce-Evans Williams, onetime holder of the women's altitude record, divorced from Sir James Heath in 1930, was found drunk in a subway station by London police. Unable to furnish a $50 guaranty of six months' good behavior, she was sentenced to 28 days in jail...
Special attention will be paid to the behavior and physical structure of gibbons, which live in great clans in the jungles of northern Siam. There is strong evidence that man and other higher primates have evolved from a gibbonoid stock, and therefore the gibbon becomes a key animal in the interpretation of man's social and physical evolution...
...example, the everyday behavior of a great artist is likely to resemble ham acting. Wilfrid Lawson, a spectacular and accomplished performer,* is no ham actor...
...objects they represent, and a vivid imagination is demanded of the audience. There is not the remotest effort to secure realism, and actors knock at invisible garden gates, and gallop about gayly on horses that are at best ethereal. The strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion to the boards in the nick of time...