Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the...
¶ Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish...
"But I had learned my lesson. I feel that my mind is clear and free and as keen as it ever was. I want it to stay that way. It means more to me than anything the ring can give me in the future.
Idiosyncrasies. From an island in New York Harbor where the city's refuse is burnt, a smoky stench pervades the neighborhood. It bothers some people of the city. They sicken peculiarly because, health officials have just declared, the proteins in the smoke are poisonous to them. Other communities whose...
Smug Broadwayfarers learned last week that the shoguns of the show world, principally the Brothers Shubert, Albert Herman Woods, William A. Brady, Arthur Hammerstein, had bickered among themselves, had dickered with one David R. Hochreich, president of Vocafilm Corporation of America, makers of a talking picture device that theretofore had...