Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens in their hands autographing each others' books and sign ing group photographs, but they did pass resolutions asking for more broadcasting of poetry, suggested that the donors of poetry prizes give supplementary prizes for elocution in poetry. Neither were they too busy to recognize and honor the Widow Wilson...
...them frankly that he had been born 69 years ago in a Michigan log cabin. His voice was impressive, his bearing dignified. He was a trustee of Manhattan's interdenominational Church of the Strangers. His corporation sounded good - motors and things. And all he would think of accept ing (at first) was $100 of their money...
...like Brodie and get away with it forever. A big men's-furnish-ing company from Edinburgh opened a branch shop next to Brodie's, undersold him, drove him gradually out of business. He welcomed his wife's death because it let him engage buxom young Barmaid Nancy as "housekeeper"; whiskey and Nancy became his crutches. Then Son Matt came whining home from India, hung around the house till one fine day he and Nancy went off to South America. Brodie leaned more heavily on the bottle, pinned all his hopes on Nessie's winning...
...When Minister Brodie wants to give his Finnish friends a real treat, he sends them several of his huge American pota toes, and the gift is more appreciated than would be a basket of American beauty roses or the rarest of orchids. Accompany ing the gift is always a receipt showing how to prepare the potatoes for the table...
...Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school...