Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous' for the political organizations he made out of the road camps. In these he made the slight error this year of making the tithe too heavy...
...Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...
...grown-ups make as much fuss as they please over their Savings Clubs and last-minute-shopping rushes; Christmas remains always a children's festival that no adult can thoroughly appreciate. Other holidays, decreed in all solemnity by the powers that be in honor of birthdays or battles, are occasions enough for the elders to take a day off and indulge in parades and other pleasant diversions. The youngest generations wait for the last of the yearly series to come into their own. To be sure, they seize upon such opportunities as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, with sufficient...
...following article on the religion founded by Buddha and the numerous sects that have grown out of it was written by Baron von Stael-Holstein, visiting lecturer at the University. Baron von Stael-Holstein who occupies the post of professor of Sanscrit at the National University of Peking is one of the lecturers who are at Harvard this year in connection with the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...