Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Hungarian and English, Von Neumann speaks French and German, and has a large brown dog named Inverse. People who should know say that Von Neumann is eminently qualified to sit across the atomic table from the Russians in the greatest game in the world...
...rude!"). But mostly, he has found other ways of making them stretch their minds. Every morning he has been on hand to have breakfast with them; after that, he guided them spiritually from the pulpit in chapel. He conducted his own Bible class, and in the afternoon, his dog Rani trotting at his side, he was apt to lead a group of boys into the woods for a discourse on woods lore. At dinner or at tea-or during his daily rounds through the infirmary-he would try to draw his students out on every sort of topic-from...
...left knee." For the new rich there was advice on etiquette. Sample: "A word about the treatment of servants. One should always be kind to them. I always make it a point to be scrupulously civil to inferiors. I frequently stop in the street to pat a vagrant dog on the head or to say a kind word to a horse...
...gracefully upward had cost $10,000 to build," she recalls, "and the gardener's cottage was so small that when we realized we would have to live there ourselves we were obliged to add a wing larger than the original structure. We had a tail that wagged the dog...
...concentrate on "more taste than money." When World War II broke, it dutifully reported on Paris fashions until its staff fled the city. Schiaparelli's last Paris collection, said Vogue bravely, had been "especially ingenious . . . With metal and leather taken by the Army, she fastened her coats with dog leashes." In bombed-out London, British Vogue continued to publish, carried ads for "especially designed protection costumes ... of pure oiled silk . . . available in dawn, apricot, rose, amethyst, Eau de Nil green and pastel pink. The wearer can cover a distance of 200 yards through mustard gas." It also advised readers...