Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps Sir Rabindranath Tagore's "disgust with 'the prejudiced and despicable American view of things and people Asiatic' " (TIME, May 6, p. 48) may be explained by the following fact...
...asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...
Quite as exciting as the fact that because of the King's illness, this was the first formal Court a British Queen had held alone for 29 years, was the fact that California's Helen Wills, the world's most beautiful tennis champion, was about to be presented. The crowd swarmed like bees about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled...
When 28 French Republican deputies sat down to their breakfast coffee and croissants* early last week, each found a large crinkly letter from Geneva in his morning's mail. Innocent and refreshed after a sound night's sleep, not one Republican deputy saw anything untoward in the fact that the large crinkly letters were embossed on the stationery of "Foreign Minister Lamidaeff, of the Kingdom of Poldavia." They saw nothing strange in the fact that Poldavians were in financial difficulties, and they found Minister Lamidaeff most thoughtful in not asking for money, but merely for an expression...
Last week the Cadets downed the Princeton riders 11 to 2 after the latter had looked impressive by defeating Pennsylvania Military College and Yale. In spite of the fact that Harvard won the National Indoor Inter-collegiate Polo Championship this winter, the present outdoor team is minus the services of the Clark brothers, so that the match bids fair to be a real test for the Crimson...