Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing the feeling of the Crimson on the elections questions, I thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear...
> Einstein was ambling down Princeton's Nassau Street one day, waving amiably to tradesmen who gawped at him from doorways, when a Greek restaurateur timidly accosted him, asked him what lay outside the bounds of the known universe. The professor grinned, said: "Ja, do not worry; you don'...
On a visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer...
Eve Curie, 34-year-old younger daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, once declared: "I don't hate science, but it just terrifies me." Last week, slim and chic, she arrived in Manhattan with two objects: 1) the "exciting pleasure of buying some American clothes," and 2...
Methodical and efficient, Author Marquand dictates first drafts, rewrites slowly. Once fond of reading adventure fiction, he now prefers what he calls "the bitter people"-Maugham and Thackeray. "I have," declares sardonic Author Marquand, "only three friends in the world and two of those don't like me."