Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular blast of Dr. Sprague is likely to be the signal for serious battle, which he promises to begin with a series of syndicated articles on good and bad monetary policies. Carrying the prestige of the "brain trust" to the Roosevelt public opinion and that of the Bank of England to American industrialists and bankers, his opposition will undoubtedly be of prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over...
...will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with the loud ticks of the alarm clock beating on his weary and tortured brain. On the other hand, there are men who refuse to sacrifice all for science. Although they do an amount of work which would be considered satisfactory in most other fields, in Chemistry or Biology they miss about half the course, and are obliged to make a desperate rush...
...ideas were the chief subject of debate. Newshawks can keep no track of his daily comings and goings. Most of last week Ithaca newshawks had the impression that he was in Washington and Washington newshawks thought he was at home teaching at Cornell. Not a member of the original Brain Trust, he kept even his Washington office a secret and by habitually slipping into the White House through the garden he avoided letting any one keep tab on him while he kept tab on the way his theories were being put in practice...
...young lady who advised him to walk through the mirror, no longer marble now but a solemn and equivocal Muse. A polite audience chuckles at the game from the balconies of the courtyard. When the young man tries to cheat and fails, he puts a bullet through his brain...
When Vaslav Nijinsky's brain cracked so that he could no longer recognize people or places, his friends had the idea of taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the world's greatest dancing corps. Only once during the performance did Nijinsky appear to see through the fog. Serge Lifar, a young protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes...