Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year...
Charm. A rustic soda jerker keeps his Manhattan-bent sweetheart by purchasing a book on Charm and pursuing its elegant policies in the hometown parlors...
...Manhattan, Mildred Cooper, nurse, was pursued by a man, fell down. When a policeman bent over to help her up, she bit his hand...
...looked like a goat . . . had ears like a jackass, a back like a sawbuck, no shine on the hair. The head was bent and, to top it all, the pup was cross-eyed...
...most men leave their alma mater bent upon a hundred careers; they are trained business executives, landscape architects, and spectroscopists as often as teachers and more often than they are preachers. Once they walked for exercise and milked the college cow; now they are highly specialized athletes or men who have developed a superb technique of sitting in stadiums and an amazing lung power. In the seventeenth century they devoted themselves with the part singing of hymns and endless discussion of theological subtleties in the twentieth they hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse...