Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses such as French 2 and German 1a, it seems entirely possible to include in prescribed outside reading a few modern novels or plays, presenting a picture of foreign people as they live and talk today. Such works will not only show along what lines literature has recently developed, but will tend to illustrate the ability of a language to assimilate new terms and to express the ever-changing ideas of a modern race. They need not be given too great emphasis by instructors, but should merely serve to bring out the colloquial side of a foreign language...
...live goat (non-political); the bandeau from the head of New York's most gracious hostess; a hair from Kermit Roosevelt's mustache (if he will permit such familiarity); a live turtle; the most beautiful woman in New York not yet present at the party; a bottle of good champagne unopened until passed on by the judges; any bird (not canaries or common sparrows); the future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting...
...Spada Varalli Potenziani, ex- Governor of Rome, who awarded prizes of $500, $300 and two cases of champagne. First to return were Mrs. John C. Waterbury & Nicholas Holmsen, who brought back a white goat, complete with keeper, and a red lantern. From his pocket resourceful Mr. Holmsen extracted a live turtle...
...when they said good-bye by shedding tears. The title's only relevance is the fact that Author Maugham thought up these stories while Ah King was his servant. Some of them: A married woman and her lover, about to become illegitimate parents, kill the husband, marry and live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white...
...therefore sympathize with the Freshman who called the woman at the Information Office In University Hall yesterday, and said "I live up here in Stoughton where we only have shower baths. I dearly want a real bath. Do you know where I might find a bathtub which I could...