Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin explained that his own reading of history had begun with Froissart, going on to Scott, Macaulay, Froude, Carlyle, Clarendon. He dwelt upon the opportunity for some historian to deal with the American Revolution from the viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite...
Prince Chichibu made known in confidence that he will occupy next winter at Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin) College, Oxford, the very rooms once dwelt in by precocious undergraduate Oscar Wilde
When he lately introduced a bill in Congress for partitioning the Philippines and establishing a second native government under the U. S. control in the islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, Siassi, Tawi Tawi and a few others, Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
...week shook the abode of the Sultan of Sulu at Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
...mention of her is made in the "authorized" Life of Benito Mussolini, though several of his early mistresses are dwelt upon. The young Mussolini-hodcarrier, schoolmaster, editor-yet burned with an ardor which singed many a maid and dame ere ever he set the world on fire...