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...family has never gone deeply into the social whirl. When we first came to Washington, I announced that I would continue to do my own cooking (TIME, April 6, 1925), a resolution to which I have not entirely adhered. Furthermore, it is only natural that our daughter Edna should crave to teach. Her uncle, Ray Lyman Wilbur, famed educator, is president of Leland Stanford University...
...fakir's tricks, then, are not recommended to those who have two hours and a half and crave simple pleasure. Some blood is spilled, but there is little laughter and no love interest. The appeal is partly to the mind and partly to the pit of the stomach. The latter appeal may be overwhelming in isolated cases. Instances of internal rising and active nausea have been reported by the severely squeamish...
...They are Maria Guerrero and Fernando Diaz de Mendoza with various assistants. The word "burst" is used advisedly. The Spaniards played with more explosive energy than any troupe of melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays to bits. Most of them were lurid melodramas, sensitive to this sort of treatment. Spaniards in the packed galleries howled back their delight with equal fervor. Nordics called...
...crave no sympathy, but only a pallid smile can respond to the suspicion that . . . Germany . . . can at any visible date . . . set up a war machine...
...dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause, and grant it too, upon the most extraordinary conditions...