Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow hair engagingly, introduced me to the beautiful lady with whom he was dancing and sat down. They were Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott seems to have changed not one whit from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate bent upon becoming a great author. He is still eager. He is still bent upon becoming a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife assures me is far far better than either This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful, and Damned, but like most...
...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...
...Federal forces engaged the enemy at Irolo without important effect. General Obregon took over supreme command of the Army and bent all his energies in pushing forward to Vera Cruz. The first big clash occurred at San Marcos and resulted in a defeat for the rebels, who were forced to retire. This split the two rebel armies into two corps of about 6,000 men each; the San Marcos corps retiring to Orizaba, while the other of about the same strength held Puebla, the second largest town in possession of the rebels...
...control of the entire Northwest and a final "rule over the immeasurable resources of Oriental commerce." Hill failed in the greatest of his ideals. The realization that there were in the world forces greater than his own, "Napoleon of Railroads" though he was, saddened his old age, left him bent and broken. But he has left a mark on the world and on his country that can never be erased...
...strains of Schubert's Ave Maria. The audience sank back in anticipation, the committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year...