Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested to know that she is still bringing in the bills, her treasure now amounts to $34. We are still unable to find out where she gets the money. Your article was very good and absolutely correct...
...know full well that the campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact...
...Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders who know their Vermeer it had as much novelty as if it were dated 1938, for a year ago it was not known to exist...
...majority of U. S. citizens, Hi-Li is the childish pastime of bouncing a rubber ball off the face of a wooden paddle. But those who have ever spent a night in Miami or Havana know that "high lie" is the way you pronounce the Cuban national game, spelled jai alai and played by scooping the ball in mid-air with shallow wicker baskets and hurling it against the walls of a long concrete court...
Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his story up to 1892. Last week another collection of 672 pages carried it to his death...