Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...
Said George W. Wilson, Executive Committee Chairman of the St. Louis bank: "Isn't it a commentary that Sister Wernera should be penalized for her courage and integrity in trying to meet an obligation of honor, and that others are commended for evading their just debts...
...would appear that John Reed was an outstanding Harvard Graduate, an outstanding one because of his: "quality of courage, idealism, and independent mind," so outstanding in fact that he merits a large niche in Harvard's Hall of Fame. Isn't it a matter of fact that his real outstanding quality was that he was a Bolshevik and had he been a Russian Bolshevik and not an American Bolshevik, would anyone have recognized his "quality of courage, idealism, and independent mind...
...Harvard people will be interested to know that we have been elected Dartmouth's favorite woman's college. Of course we do not want to be catty, and we certainly wouldn't like for Wellesley, Vassar, and Smith to think we have been doing anything unfair--but isn't it just too divine for words. Everyone has known for a long time that Dartmouth boys thrill us no end, but it is indeed gratifying to know that our feeling is returned...
...adopted a 7-week-old black-locked son. Father Jolson had rushed from Manhattan, Mother Keeler from Hollywood for the adoption. Soon as they signed the papers, each rushed back to his respective home, she with the new baby in the basket and babbling: "We're simply thrilled. Isn't the baby scrumptious? His daddy thinks so too. I think he takes after Al a little, with that dark hair...