Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada and Australia (or other fresh, unexhausted lands) are creatures of a new, sixth race, capable of seeing ethereal spirits, possessed of clairvoyance. All other people living are said to derive from the fifth, or Arian root race. Another Besant belief: California is highly electrical, hence occult manifestations are frequent. Great is the hope of the Society that Krotona will prove a breeding place of strapping, golden children...
...life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps on sentimentality was a fault of the author rather than the actor...
...make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte-nay's villa at Nice the old Frenchman passes many an hour in wordy reminiscence. At each encounter he narrates an episode, always honorable, not always legal, of his eventful life. Author...
...questionnaire was answered by 2468 of the 3129 undergraduates; of these 1874, or 71 per cent admitted that they drink, while 769 declared themselves abstainers. The number of frequent imbibers is 352, and of occasional ones...
...socialists will play a role of picketing similar to that performed by New York students in the strike of the same Union which occured there recently. To insure a high standard of efficiency and maintain a spirit of optimism among the insurgents, the students will relieve each other in frequent shifts...