Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begin. First he was brought in from the cozy Cleveland Park home to take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Then he found himself being led off to great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into inconspicuous drawing-room corner, spoke when spoken to, wore a mask of polite pleasure...
...philosophy aims at instructing the people to obey leaders who have intelligence to guide them. But this philosophy will fail in a situation where the blind are leading the blind and know not where they are going...
...quarter-pound of meat stimulates almost twice as much gastric juices as does a quarter-pound of bread or other carbohydrates, and is correspondingly better for normal digestion. Doctors, dietitians and gastronomers in general did not know that fact until last week when they received a leaflet from Drs. Martin E. Rehfuss* and George H. Marcil of Philadelphia...
...completed in Manhattan a year's intensive meat-eating (no vegetables). Physicians of the Russell Sage Institute will report their findings in six months. Said Explorer Stefansson: "I feel perfectly fit, am wide awake, and am more aggressive. . . . I slept well and developed lots of brand new ideas. You know, I deal in ideas now?I have passed the stage where I have to carry them out." Explorer Stefansson...
...life Baudelaire achieved fame by publishing Les Fleurs du Mal, by espousing Dandyism, by living with the negress Jeanne Duval. Only the most enthusiastic Baudelairians know his brilliant Salons, the pitiful Journaux Intimes, his Petits Poémes en Prose. And today it is only in Les Fleurs du Mal that Baudelaire exists...