Word: bequeath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hooker mysteries, said he would not be believed. A U. S. adept told how he had paced the streets, unable to sleep, tortured with speculation. Dr. Hooker will presumably leave his secret to the younger men who already share it, with instructions that they keep it amateur magic, bequeath it in time to other successors. Perhaps the Hooker secret will thus be kept for centuries...
...indeed it is generally known that he is present. Entirely shorn of that halo of authority which the Freshman Halls proctor wears for his flock, the proctor in upperclass dormitories also loses prestige as a social factor and consequently has little in the nature of a beneficial heritage to bequeath to a tutor. To combine the duties of the two very dissimilar offices would do nothing to establish the desired intimate relation between the tutor and the tutee in the new houses...
...those who love him, I bequeath...
...bequeath books for a mere pittance on the regal powers that be is such a dismal proceeding that it saps the strength of even those exuberant ones who have just emerged from the course in which texts were used. But they emerge to find a cold and heartless world, one dominated by Simon Legrees. Better, far better to assume the charitable and munificent pose and to give the books to the Phillipse Brooks House Library. There they will be appreciated, and the quality of gratitude will remain an unstrained...
...Napoleon said: "I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England!" Who was king of England at that time...