Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk in the American Consulate at Amsterdam, the first feminine U. S. vice-consul, the second* woman ever to be admitted to the U. S. Diplomatic and Consular Service. Diplomats lauded this personable novice for her wise reticence. They recalled a statement which she had made, in her alarmingly deep voice, at the time of her oppointment (TIME, Sept. 14): "There are some things in this career that women can do better than...
...simple tale, and simply told. But those who read it will remark it strange that Lampy glosses over in a line or two the question of his origin. Some will call it filial ingratitude that he not even mentions who his parents were. The matter always has been shrouded deep in mystery: no wonder Lampy hesitates to talk about first causes. Lampy's simple statement that a note somebody passed in classroom brought him forth, is even more at odds with nature than a virgin birth. Therefore, the CRIMSON, who remembers well the scandal incident to Lampy's birth...
...little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian spring...
...Deep in the thick jungles of Central America are dozens of splendid stone cities abandoned centuries ago. Of the mysterious race which built them, there remain only a few hundred thousand Indians, ignorant of their glorious past...
...claimed for Shaw that he is the only celebrated European who has not succumbed to the lure of a speaking tour in the United States. Deep down in his heart he would probably enjoy nothing so much as a trip to these shores. Such a trip would mean at least a couple of new plays. "But why come to America?" one can imagine Shaw saying to himself. "Columbus did it first...