Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I was greatly surprised at the comment my stray remark caused in the press. Lately I have received newspaper clippings from places as distant as Cape Town, Madras, and Ceylon. I don't mind what editors say about me, having been one myself. But I do dislike to be misunderstood...
And that remark seemed to switch his mind to prohibition, and he murmured bitterly: "Do you know what the trouble with prohibition is" Every one in America is so busy drinking they don't give it a thought."
The advice which he offers is as follows: (1) Don't allow the object of your desires to know she or he holds such a position of honor. (2) Make her or him jealous; and (3) Make yourself scarce. The advice certainly sounds good to the unexperienced ear, but it...
William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, cineman, lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything...
Mlle. Keila, the daughter of an eminent sculptor in New York, also expressed her disapproval of Boston audiences. "I don't like them," she said, "because, I suppose, they don't like me. I guess I'm too bold for them." Coming on the heels of the Mayor's ban...