Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace, maintains a garage in which 2,000 motor vehicles can lie in pawn, chiefly during the winter months when their thrifty owners see no sense in gadding about. Because everything pawned in France is automatically insured at lowest rates, wealthy Parisians often pawn their plate and jewels when going to the seaside in summer, not because they need the money but because there...
...uses her kangaroo lollop and wry mouth as trademarks for a great human personality. All her songs are written by her third husband, Billy Rose. In a pinafore she repeats her radio performance of "Snooks," the problem child of a George Washington descendant who tries to cure her of lying. Depraved, whining, fearful, she pushes out a great idiot face when she is cornered in a lie and baby-talks: "What did 'oo say?" When her mother finally admits to her father that before the strange child was born, Baron Munchausen had chased her across a field, Fanny pipes...
...Prep School Honor Roll. It indicates only the number of satisfactory or unsatisfactory grades which the student has managed to garner during the academic year and nothing whatsoever as to the intelligence of the tutorial work which he has done in the field in which his chief interests lie. To University Hall the maintenance of such a list may be convenient, but its publication is unpleasant and unnecessary...
...case Dr. Dandy began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby came out of the ether all right, and is taking her feeding nicely. The operation may be termed successful...
...Economics is a subject of vast and increasing importance. Economic motives lie very deep, perhaps even deeper than Freud conceives of sex motives as lying; for if the perpetuity of the race rests on sex motives, then the continuing existence of the race rests on economic motives. They underlie and color all our conduct. Such a fundamental subject certainly should be taught with thoroughness. The question is how to teach it with thoroughness...