Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The most amusing incident of last fall," he said, "was when I ordered a group of amateur horsemen to follow me along the bridle path. Before we had gone 100 yards, my companions had left me behind. They went by at a high speed, and one rider suddenly dismounted without...
Apropos of your article (in this week's number) "Napoleon among the jackrabbits" is the following amusing and true incident.
And President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, 70, but called a "successful old business man," said, drily: "Age makes no difference. If a young man has ability and foresight, he will succeed. So will an old man. Age itself is only an incident."
The Wolrd then goes on to say that the sums of money spent on athletic contests and their incident banquets are so large that the scheme ought to present no financial difficulties. A Harvard undergraduate writer of the time asks why the project might not be carried out, and baseball...
Yet the most striking feature of Mrs. Woodward's story is by all odds her manner of depicting people. In the first place she observed them carefully. In the second, perhaps because she herself came from the environment of poverty, she tried to see them in their respective environments. In...