Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling to Chicago, Surrealist Salvador Dali telegraphed ahead to a friend to notify the press he was coming. Upon arrival he went quickly to the Art Institute, had himself photographed beside one of his paintings while Mrs. Dali gurgled: "Isn't it awful? He has to submit to this everywhere...
...last year," noted Herb Gill, mentor of the Indians, "when we took the Harvard's 6-4 up here after loosing in Boston, I have oodles of confidence in my outfit for the coming week-end . . . . we'll profit by more complete watchfulness of Ford. After all", continued Gill, "isn't this a Dartmouth Carnival...
...advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...
...later a bridesmaid at his wedding), fidgeted and fumed with the "shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each moment more excruciating...
...example to show the way that the nations are avoiding war. Kaltenborn points to the Siberian peninsula "In this Spanish situation, there have been 16 different incidents that might have led to war. Germany isn't going to go out and tackle England, Russia and France without a major Europeanally. She isn't ready for war economically or politically. Of course, a Fascist victory in Spain will be a great boost for Fascism all over the world, and so the outcome in Spain will be a determining factor in the speed of liberal movements everywhere...