Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Old men in caravansaries puffed at their hookahs and wagged a knowing finger. Richly garbed palace servants chattered in the courtyards. In Bombay's Willingdon Club the smart set gushed about it over chotapeg. The talk even slid through the lacelike alabaster screens in the harems. In the midst...
Though he rejoices in this coming revolution, Bernanos' mind is too robust and honest not to know the chances against its taking a Christian form. It is "doubtful that the atrocious deception of our people would let them return at first to the dogmas of our faith." They may...
To start with, anyone who calls the elm-shaded area where the University lives and moves and has its being a "campus" is likely to be shunned by the knowing ones from that point forward. Because it was once a cow pasture, it is now and forever shall be known...
The new Henry, short, stocky, pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured...
In spite of these confusing details, however, the basic fact has been established: the gun is more important than the pen. But this does not mean that every college student should pack his bag immediately and leave for the nearest enlistment office. Rather it means that his task is to...