Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DON'T WORRY, MOTHERS, THE EVACUATED KIDDIES ARE HAPPY IN THE COUNTRY.
In the upper brackets Riggs had a cinch. He chopped off Australian Journalist Harry Hopman after Harry had eliminated troublesome Bitsy Grant. He waded through Joe Hunt, after Joe had spent two days (the match was interrupted by darkness) and five endless sets whittling down French Champion Don Mc-Neill...
But Dr. Johnson took pains to divorce himself from lay progressive educators. "We Catholics," said he, "believe in original sin, and so we believe in discipline. A good many progressives don't seem to believe in any sin at all!" Discipline in Dr. Johnson's school, however, is...
Comfortably brought up in Alton, Ill., in a period when a girl was "much more than a girl," young Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are...
HARDLY A MAN Is Now ALIVE-Don Beard-Doubleday, Doran ($3).