Word: duenna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud duenna of the city, the Watch and Ward Society, sees her protege slipping from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening...
...fact that dog had more methods of approaching a moving point in space than any person I have ever known in Emerson. He did it with the wariness of a Central Square duenna and the nonchalance of two Central Square duennas. I sat for hours and watched him. One does things like that on spring vacations. And then there is now the subtle excuse of being a behaviorist. All of which I must admit I am not, believing sincerely that most behaviorism is at best perfunctory...
...company there are two actors who have at some time studied under Professor G. P. Baker '87 in his 47 Work snop course. The leading role of Mrs Alving is played by Miss Ruth Cherpenning, a 47 Workshop graduate. She plays the part of the Duenna in "Cyrano...
...French Academy-the 40 most learned men in France who meet in L'Institut de France and guard the purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duenna-decreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years...