Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting and reading this book have also a story, a history. How much of that could be told? How much do we writers dare let ourselves go in the making of portraits? How close can we keep to truth? How much do we dare try to be true historians? . . . And then, too, another danger, always the danger of the historian's imagination also thrusting in. Who has not asked himself the question: 'Do I know my own wife, my brother, father, son, friend?' Moments of intense loneliness, known to all people...
...intended to be included on the list. As an example he classed musicians, artists, or business men as practitioners, and not fundamental theorists and scientists. Harvard he said wished to boner only this latter class, and for this reason a degree was given to a great musical historian, no a musician, to a great fundamental economist, not a business...
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...Andre Jager-Schmidt, historian of Paris, learning of the North Carolina story for the first time on hearing that the schoolmaster's grave was to be reopened, delved into the records which, by a queer thrust of fate, happen to be housed in the very suite of Luxembourg Palace where Ney was held a prisoner during his court martial. He finds abundant evidence to show that Ney was really shot...
...Manhattan's famed Hair-Cutter Charles De Zemler, "Historian of the Profession," is now preparing to publish his 25-year research on barbering...