Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators wanted to know if, as the Wisconsin Legislature had averred, he was Communistic. "I am not a Communist," Tom Amlie said. "My differences with Communism are fundamental. . . . To charge me with being a Communist . . . is just as ridiculous as charging Glenn Frank." Fear of fascism in the U. S., he said, was his reason for advocating some form of democratic collectivism involving production control...
...Three men know all about what both sides are doing. One is Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, a country boy from Kentucky who made good as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and is chief umpire in the Navy game. Another is one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, to whom the cruiser Houston was assigned so that he could rove through the battle area, keeping tabs by radio...
Regrettable, I think, is the assurance with which the Crimson has decided that Professor Feild is Fine Arts' most popular teacher. Have you had a contest, or do you just know that among the "Fine Arts Six" none stands a chance...
...Have you heard about Cynthia's wedding?" It was a rhetorical question. "Well, you know in the beginning they were going to be married during the first week of June, but Mr. Buttress, that's John's father, has to go back to Harvard for his twenty-fifth reunion then. The next date was the thirteenth, but John has to be at Harvard for his annual club dinner. By this time Cynthia was really impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that...
Such a man intrigues Vag. Everyone knows that he went deaf before he was thirty and still composed some of the most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom...