Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main ways for a student to make money was to take good lecture notes and sell them to his classmates for several rubles. As a result of this practice which was condoned by the professors, very few of the students took notes and "did not have their heads bent over notebooks...
...Manhattan to bid farewell to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, off for his new post as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. A young woman flounced up to him, sighed: "I've never kissed a Roosevelt and I've always wanted to." Secretary James bent down, turned a cheek, blushed as she kissed him. Swept away by the crowd, she shouted: "I think you're wonderful. I think your father is wonderful. All the Roosevelts are wonderful...
Last week Author Nicolson published his uncle's biography, Helen's Tower. He now recognizes a number of contradictions in his uncle's career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love...
That prices too high should be lowered and prices too low should be raised was not by itself a highly enlightening eco nomic doctrine. But as a political announcement it had force, for it laid at rest conjectures that the Administration was specifically bent on inflation. Professor Roosevelt picked up a slim wooden pointer and, leaning back in his chair, proceeded to elucidate his meaning with nine separate graphs on specific prices...
...Mitchell came to the conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity...