Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan once wrote, "I lived in a sort of perpetual daydream." He left school early, went to work for an electrical manufacturer who shortly took such an interest in his mathematical bent that Sullivan was able to complete his education at London University. Beethoven and Dostoyevski were tremendous experiences which dazed him. He visited the U. S., went back for the War which so shattered him that he was forced to rebuild his life. He wrote a book on Beethoven and an autobiographical novel in which he manifested an impressive lack of interest in politics, business, social gatherings, bank holidays...
...deaf-mutes), N. A. D.'s President Kenner who owns a Manhattan printing establishment and insurance bureau. In general, nonetheless, discontent ruled the convention. Scarcely a finger was crooked concerning the causes of deaf-mutism (chiefly whooping cough, scarlet fever, various types of meningitis, severe falls). But knuckles bent, palms flipped, wrists twisted over many grievances...
...Causes Bill extends the grounds for divorce in England from adultery-previously the sole ground-to include also: i) desertion without cause for three years or more; 2) cruelty; 3) incurable insanity if under treatment for at least five years. In hopes of applying brakes to hasty British couples bent on too-swift marriage, the bill provides that a husband & wife must remain married for at least three years before either can sue for divorce, though the courts are empowered to waive this restriction "in cases of exceptional hardship suffered by the petitioner or exceptional depravity on the part...
...never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife Evelyn spent a whole summer with him in sweltering Washington because, as she explained: "If Martha Washington could stick it out here with...
...genial spirits that, when publicly welcoming the Soviet North Pole Expedition home to Moscow, he kissed its chief, heavily bearded Professor Otto Schmidt, full on the mouth. Also back in Moscow last week from their Coronation trip to England were U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers daily (TIME, June 28 et ante), life...