Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
Strapping, black-haired, 46, conservatively dressed, grammatical but homespun, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel has further assets in a pretty grey-haired wife named Merle, two good-looking boys in their teens, Pat & Mike, and a cute 16-year-old daughter, Molly. All musical, the children accompanied him and his hillbilly band everywhere. Their meetings soon far surpassed other candidates' in size...
...vacancies in Philadelphia's Third Circuit Court of Appeals (TIME, June 13), the President elevated cute, caustic, gangling District Judge William Clark, 47, foe of the late 18th Amendment,* now presiding over C.I.O.'s suit for an injunction against interference with civil liberties in Jersey City...
...thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime it." So he primed it for seven years. When it still did not work, he said, "I will not let my people down; I will prime for 70 times 7 years, and if it does not work then, at least...
Embarrassed at having horrified an Eliot, TIME gladly prints Brother T. S. Eliot's "much more characteristic" portrait (see cute...