Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only. And the nasty man didn't even ask us anything about the lectures." Such was the tenor of the wailing of Ass No. 1. It is rather difficult to know just what this particular ass meant by "outside reading." A certain amount of reading was assigned to be done outside of the class and why one should consider any of this reading as more outside than the rest of it is somewhat of an enigma. Furthermore, if this particular creature had gone to the lectures, he would have found that at least three of the questions on the examination...
...opened his mouth this morning. Says he, "the examination was obviously designed to test, not understanding of the reading, but whether one had done the reading." Far better would it have been if the mouth of Ass No. 2 had been so stuffed with hay that no noise could have issued thence, for he accomplished nothing more than the admission; that he is one of that small, but ever present group who pass examinations through an understanding of reading they have never done...
...players his keys, stops & treadles; and on them he pressed, shoved & stepped twice last week at a tempo & pressure that made, for example, his finale of Brahm's C Minor Symphony the fulminant of a Manhattan explosion of applause. The players were both glad that they were done with him and proud that their skill had met his demands. For the beat of his baton brevets a player an artist...
...help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...
...captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time had done more than watch the sudden noisy game of war that his people were playing in the lazy island. He had learned how to write his last name and he had become a soldier, a general, a governor under Dessalines. When Dessalines died, Henry Christophe was made president for four years...