Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning his account with a description of Washington during Jefferson's administrations, Author Bowers details the uncomfortable 11-day trip from New York by stagecoach, the hunting within the city limits, the horse-racing and card-playing that provided most of the entertainment for Washington dwellers, the strange mixture of physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet...
...Appointments for conferences with Faculty Advisers. Each Freshman is expected to report to his Adviser at this hour with the study card which he received in his registration envelope. This card properly filled out and signed by the Adviser should be handed in as soon as ready at C University Hall. A fine of $5.00 is charged for study cards of new Freshmen submitted after 5 P.M. on Monday, September 28. Provisionally classified students may file their cards not later than 5 P.M. on Tuesday, September...
...produced if Western biographers would turn their eyes away from the gunsmoke of legend that surrounds their heroes and concentrate on the environments in which they flourished. As in Thomas Ripley's life of Wesley Hardin, They Died with Their Boots On (TIME, July 29, 1935), Wayne Card's life of Sam Bass is least interesting in those sections where the central figure is built up as a bold and exceptional individual, most vivid in its account of political and social struggles on the frontier...
...automobiles (about 180 per hour on weekdays) reach this section, they are halted by police for a rigorous inspection of tires, brakes, lights, windshield wipers, mirrors, signal devices, loads. The driver is inspected for sobriety. Those who are let through are given a card stamped with the time of discharge and stating that the speed limit is 45 m. p. h. At the other end of the section another officer collects the ticket, notes by the elapsed time whether the driver has been speeding. If so, he is given a warning, told the police may try to revoke his license...
...Acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and considered "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum" was (1 The Artist's Mother-Whistler, 2 American Gothic-Wood, 3 Mono. Lisa-da Vinci, 4 The Card Players-Cezanne, S Venus and the Lute Player-Titian...