Word: choosey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often publicly kicked in the teeth, with obstreperous rhetoric. In 1937 it was the Pennsylvania Museum, for buying what the doctor considered a fifth-rate Cezanne (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Now revealed in more dignified terms (thanks, possibly, to Collaborator de Mazia, an instructor and researcher at the choosey Barnes Foundation) are the Barnes qualifications on that subject...
...Roosevelt has been boasting of the non-partisan character of his Administration, Jim Farley has been adroitly staffing the Government with deserving Democrats-and nobody else. He has found, for instance, that he can palm off almost anyone on Attorney General Cummings but that Relief Administrator Hopkins is excessively choosey about who goes on his payroll. Despite Washington mutterings at the potentialities of scandal, the Farley appointments have been no better, no worse than those of preceding Republican administrations. Human nature being what it is. Mr. Farley has made isolated mistakes but by & large the new Democratic jobholders have proved...
...medieval castle at Sands Point (now inhabited by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst), and later to go abroad and die, her old estate near Hempstead, L. I. has been on the downgrade. It was sold to Cold Stream Corp., which converted part of it into a golf club not too choosey about its membership. Last week a plaintiff with a debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County's Democratic Boss Philip Krug. Receiver Duffy got in his car, drove...
...excess of child brides over child grooms: the rich old men of Mysore eagerly snap up brides under 10 (even though they may have no dowry) but Mysore boys marry under 10 only when two wealthy families want to conclude an "alliance" before the groom grows up and becomes choosey...
Outside the cloister of his fanaticism for words and work Author Bennett pursued the society of literati, filled his journal with notes on the contemporary scene. He was not choosey. He confesses in one of his few poems: For me a rural pond is not more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea...