Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasingly intimate correspondence. Nadejda had 12 children and was very much the head of her family. She had a whim of iron, and it was her strongest whim never to appear in public, never to be at home to anyone but her own kin (Rubinstein was apparently the lone exception). As her epistolary friendship with Tchaikovsky grew, her commissions got more munificent, her language ever more affectionate, until finally she was supporting Tchaikovsky and their letters to each other were more platonic than respectable...
Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
...maternity wards, safe from the eyes and ears of their menfolk, they talk, as men never hear them, about clothes, nail polish, money ("a woman's best protection is a little money of her own"), sex ("I'm just a frozen asset," says the play's lone virgin), nursing babies ("ouch! he's got jaws like a dinosaur...
...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
...four lone bottles credited to Princeton show that President Dodds' request must have had some effect. No other team this fall, or for many years, has ever left such a small and shoddy monument to its entertainment by fair Harvard, as Princeton's two pint botties and the robust quart. Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth all left approximately twenty-five times as many dead men, that is, about 100. In all of these games Harvard's consumption was apparently far below what greeted the Tiger, for the arrival of the Nassau delegation upped the Crimson empties by about fifty per cent...