Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems strange to me that ... I should suddenly become one of the idols of the English public merely by writing one short play. Congratulations are pouring in upon me now, but they find me only a very weak old man, barely able to stand...
Count Dalla Torre is massive, stocky, weighs perhaps 200 Ibs. and stands half a head taller than most Italians. His complexion is very fair and his hair almost blond. Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan. Even enemies find him affable, but few except his friends realize his extraordinary and sensitive keenness of mind...
Congressman Britten stood up in the House of Representatives, three weeks ago, and said: "Run down the newspapers who oppose this legislation [for the benefit of the U. S. Navy], look into their editorial departments and you will find Rhodes scholarship men, British subjects, propagandists and pacifists controlling them." Mr. Britten particularly mentioned the New York Times, New York World, Baltimore...
...must not be supposed that the International Missionary Council was attended only by male persons. Women came too, and, as is usually the case when women find themselves in surroundings conducive to discussion, they talked about themselves, about woman's place in the scheme of things...
...known, a short time ago, that she wanted to sell it, people wondered why. What kind of wonderland is this, they said, in which a little girl so fails to keep the "simple and loving heart of her childhood," that she will part with something that other persons find precious when it should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell...