Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the café terraces of Paris' Boulevard St.-Germain, where people sit, sip, and discuss Picasso, a new story was going the rounds. Picasso (so the story ran) had gone up from Antibes to Vence to see Henri Matisse...
That was enough for vigorous Argentine Ambassador Hugo Oderigo. He issued a communiqué charging a "certain Argentine politician" with breaking his word not to discuss politics. Palacios heard of the statement, canceled his plane passage, and in a booming voice called on two friends to proceed as seconds to challenge the Ambassador to a duel...
Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker who became an Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts of right & wrong. There were no Sunday papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal...
...Allan Octavian Hume, a British theosophist and retired civil servant, founded the Congress in 1885. He persuaded the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, that the best way to combat growing unrest in the villages was to let Indian leaders discuss political development...
...Princeton, last week's academic blow-out capped what one guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...