Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After coffee in the living room, the dubious guest excused herself, claiming she would use her evening of pro studying for an hour exam. Her bewildered dinner partners concluded "Only a Lampoon man could have done...
...lost his huge estates, as he sat darning his seeks in an Arlberg farmyard. "In me you behold the only decent-living Hungarian ... I have never made love to a woman behind her husband's back ... I have never had an 'affair.' I have always done it correctly...
Author Bolitho's reason for doing more amply what Strachey has already done more economically is the emergence of fresh material-among others, hitherto unpublished letters from Prince Consort Albert to his German tutor, letters from the Queen to her daughter the Empress of Germany, tappings from such virgin sources as the late Queen Marie of Rumania, certain aged members of Victoria's court and the 19th Century files of the Hartford (Conn.) Times and Courant. Hardly enough to justify a new and inferior biography...
...admitted that, in the absence of serious U.S. intervention, the Chinese Communists would take over in China. Having done so, they would sieze all land from the landlords and the well-to-do farmers for redistribution, Aside from the fact that this would mean a massacre of three times the enormity of the Soviet "Khulak" liquidation, it would also mean agricultural collectivism, without which land-redistribution would be meaningless since "khulaks" would forever rise above the others and stifle them economically. As Russia's experience in the field of collectivization would be too valuable to be ignored, the Chinese Communists...
...chance to talk to Park Avenue; son of the milliner must really get to know son of the minor. To make this great barter of ideas work has been the big job of the House Plan. After 15 years of the Houses, can we say that they have done this job, and done it well...