Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Green had read some telegrams, and committee head Robert E. Lane '39 had spoken a few words on how Harvard Indifference had been broken down, the featured speaker, movie star Cantor appeared. He was alternately intensely serious and extremely humorous...
When O. Louis Guglielmi was young his violinist father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...When Tugwell left his $10,000-a-year job as Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1937, his good friend, Charles Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., offered him a job as executive vice president. He accepted, admitted he knew little about the business. When his good friend Mayor LaGuardia next year offered him the planning job, which suited his tastes and paid $15,000, he accepted with alacrity...
...plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little head. Every critical experience in Miriam's life occurs off stage, between books...
...father, Wellington Koo, has been ambassador to France for the past three years. Before that he was head of the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations, and 16 years ago he was Chinese ambassador to the United States...