Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Majorca, once an Arab fiefdom. Severely holed by bullets in the 19th century, it remains an overwhelmingly authoritative image -- rigid, swollen, and yet almost liquid in its linear rhythms, as in the rhyme between the profile curve of its breast and the serpentine edges of its wings: a guardian figure left stranded when the culture around it drained away and was lost...
...Letting someone--besides a parent or guardian into--your chambers: five shillings...
...They're pretty funny," he smiles. But Cohen is quick to add that he doesn't have all of the answers. "I tell them to ask their parents...I'm not their guardian, I shouldn't have to do that," he says...
Trott decided at first to pursue a legal career, and his work in German courts was another source of misgivings among his friends. During his time in a provincial court in 1934, the Manchester Guardian published a series of articles detailing the persecution of Jews in Trott's native Hessen. Trott wrote an angry letter to the Guardian, denying that the courts were anti-Jewish. Although his assertions proceeded from a sincere attempt to explain that not all Germans were anti-Semitic, many in England interpreted the letter as a sign of sympathy for the Nazis' aims...
...former Eliot master rejects accusations that he was the last guardian of Old Harvard, pointing to his Midwestern, public school background...