Word: like
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a child makes a painting, don t ask "What is it" (he may answer "a dog," when it isn't a dog at all). Proper form of question: "Would you like to tell me about what you were doing...
...Recession set in, Nancy had collected over $7,000. Then William Edmund Scripps, president of the Detroit News Corporation, decided to take a hand. He pointed out that with $1,000 a month in donations it would still take eight more years to raise enough. "Make them be business-like," he told his domestic columnist. Said Nancy: "They won't be businesslike. It's not that kind of a column." Nevertheless, she asked them to stop-and money still came...
...straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas. Nicholas found him indispensable...
...years one of the more appetizing types of reading, for devotees of the Atlantic Monthly, has been the account, by one gently bred, out-of-the-way wife after another, of what life is like in the centre of the Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been...
Best-beloved of guests were Osa and the late Martin Johnson. Osa was utterly fearless not only of animals but of the fragilities of Government House protocol, stood in the middle of the G. H. drawing room in a "zebra-striped silk dress . . . and brayed like a zebra, and everybody liked...