Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of which were summed up by M. Hymans, Belgian Foreign Minister:" Everything is going well toward a full agreement on the reparations question"; and by Louis Bar-thou, Chairman of the Reparations Commission: "Look at the smile on the face of le marechal Foch and you can guess all." Belgium. In addition to the conference with France there was an-other with Britain, the results of which were said to be important, but about which much reserve was evinced in official quarters. Britain. The so-called " Truce of God"- has given the Labor Government absolute power to back...
...Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
...becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes?never omitted ?had challenged a retort...
...guess might even be hazarded that the decision will effect some change. For when a question becomes sufficiently important to be referred to a committee the status quo automatically becomes in danger of change, for better or worse...
Marilynn Miller, famed musical comedy player: "When he learned that James M. Barrie had selected me from among ten actresses submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite...