Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Smith made no promises; she just pointed to her record. She had voted with the G.O.P. majority and had stuck to the progressive wing. She had learned her district like the back of her hand. She faithfully answered every letter herself. Every week, she sent local newspapers a folksy...
*Near an old trading post, which, according to legend, got its name, Ninety Six, when an Indian girl named Cateechee rode 96 miles on horseback to warn her white lover of an Indian raid. When Cateechee learned that he had been killed, she jumped off a high bluff.
Tradition & Invention. Any production of Hamlet stands or falls, in the long run, by the quality of its leading actor. Most productions have little to recommend them except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as...
* Somewhere in the past, Ben Hogan learned to "shuffle" a deck of cards. Occasionally, he shows the boys some of his sleight-of-hand tricks, by way of explaining why he never plays poker with them.
Ward's vice presidents were stunned. When they and Norton had threatened to quit last month if Avery's power was not clipped, Avery had suspected that it was a bluff to scare him off his high horse. Now he learned better. Vice Presidents Oswald Higgins, Laurence Odell...