Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The public wants T.C.U.; the college wants Duke. The question of who is right makes no difference, but the question of whose desire shall be followed makes a good deal of difference. Football may still be free from "civic responsibility." It all started between Princeton and Rutgers as a friendly...
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, writing in today's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, claims that Harvard is giving a "bad example" to the country by holding pre-season football practice. He states that this evil is the result of having hard games at the...
Maitre Moro-Giafferri has won many famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as...
She takes up Herbert Read, the English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the...
Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century...