Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speak at the traditional Thursday parade and "believed he would accept." Hickman is flying to Boston tomorrow evening for a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association officials committee, he explained. "If Hickman comes, it will be something new," said Liebman. "I don't think Harvard has ever done it before...
...Closing Door," contains little humor, and what there is could easily be done away with. The dialogue doesn't seem very important, but serves the purposes of the plot well enough. The plot, by the way, concerns an unemployed man who has lost faith in himself and is hovering on the brink of insanity. His loving and loyal wife is trying to get him into an asylum for treatment when the play begins. The entire play covers only the next few hours...
...began to keep a journal. After the war she transcribed her jottings, found that they filled 50 notebooks. At her death in 1886 she left them to a girlhood friend, who had them published in a highly expurgated edition. The re-editing job that Novelist Ben Ames Williams has done on Mary Chesnut may not only change the old picture of a slightly stuffy diarist, it may also alter a few notions of what life in the Confederacy was like...
...Sugarwater," says a "Toulouse-Lautrec lady" to a "demure garden statue" in the latest book by Ludwig Bemelmans, "let Champagne show you how it's done...
Since 1937, when Bemelmans uncorked his private stock of anecdote in My War with the United States, he has been showing his sugarwater imitators how it's done. Yet none have been able to match his polite gurgle, his discreet fizz; and none have provided so charming a label as his sketches, or been so deft at dabbing up little literary excesses before they make a mark...