Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever mentioned the drawing room. The mark of a "gentlewoman" was consideration of others. Being late for an engagement was "ill-bred, vulgar, irresponsible or ostentatious...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named it "Anna W. Ickes" for his wife...
...Never Say Die!" In addition to thus ramming the perfidy of Albion down Albion's throat amid well-bred cries of "Hear! Hear!", the astonishing 45-minute address of Sir Samuel branched into a legal demonstration that the broad principles of The Deal, whatever its defects in detail, are identically the same broad principles enunciated by the League of Nations' Committee of Five...
...been my privelidge to meet Judge Skeen and as I lived in Wise County for several years I know a good many of its inhabitants and have found most of them to be well bred and cultured people and if a correction of this impression is made by TIME I am sure the Wise Countians will appreciate a curteous gesture from what I consider the nation's leading current topics magazine...