Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Present Soviet Commissar for War is quiet, conscientious Klimentiy Voroshilov, "a man," according to famed Correspondent Alexander Nazarov, "whose modesty and lack of excessive talents have been definitely appreciated." Last week untalented Voroshilov went to Bobruisk on the Polish frontier. Snug-buttoned in his ankle-length army overcoat, he reviewed a cavalry division, congratulated Red Army Generals on the successful conclusion of their annual autumn maneuvers...
...last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself quietly in a corner, holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin it." The visitor fished a checkbook out of his pocket, wrote...
...volatile creature whose morals, unlike her golden slippers, were tarnished, she successively made him want to write an ironic short story, a romantic sonnet, an essay damning all literature, a bitter moralistic satire. But at length, with the cooling of his fevers, came wisdom. He realized that it was he, not Daisy, who changed -"my successive conceptions of Daisy had been merely the reflections'in another." Then, demanding only that she be her picturesque, wanton self, he wanted to write little sketches of her-attitudes, intonations, phrases-like the vignettes of Degas...
...knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from the heavens: "Take something in your hands and throw it at those places and smash them...
...speech, in which Cohen reminded them of the injustices to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, to Moody and Billings in California, to Hoffman in Tennessee, and to himself in Cambridge, where he was not allowed to distribute Socialist circulars on the streets. Police allowed the meeting to run its length without interruption...