Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto:
In fact I suspect every generation in its later days so regards the period of its ascendancy. For instance, there is the classic of the early days of the Military Academy when the Commandant of Cadets was reported to the Superintendent for throwing stones at the Corps of Cadets. I...
"Ah sho am glad our seats are down heab!...Ah simply adoah watchin' football games...don't you?...Oh no! Ah'm not like the rest of these women heah, Ah don't wanna talk...Ah reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward...
"Well, since it's dark almost all the time you are in a theatre. I don't see that it makes a great deal of difference whether the seats match the gowns or not. And the intermissions aren't long. Besides, who stays in theatre seats during intermissions?"
She was reminded that women are among her strongest admirers. "Well, women like it, too, don't they?" was her quick answer.