Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Famed also is the capacity of New Yorkers to endure the twice-daily pants-and-collar bum's rush from the guards-so much so that most of last week's New York City subway news roused no more impassioned attention than an advertising car card...
Instead he enclosed a card with a message of his own: "I had to open this letter as it is my duty. I am also somewhere in France. We have no more real concerts, and our only pleasure is to hear the records on the wireless. It is not necessary to say that yours are the ones I prefer...
Otherwise, a student may leave an addressed card, with the names of his courses written on it, at the Information Desk in University 4. This card will be sent when the complete returns are in. If an individual card is left for each course, the office will try to send them out as soon as they are received at University Hall...
Life is no picnic in any military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets...
Queen Caroline was a tireless walker, card player, controversialist. She appreciated Dean Swift, she corresponded with the Philosopher Leibniz, she promoted the great Berkeley to his Irish bishopric. Her courage was not fully known until she was on her death bed, when the King learned what she had desperately kept secret from him: that she had suffered for years from a painful umbilical rupture. An operation brought on gangrene. Quennell's re-creation of these full-blooded, uncomfortable people is nowhere more penetrating than in his account of the Queen's noble and terrible last days, during which...