Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much. I was very much amused in a statement that you made in TIME several months ago, which was: "Virginia's chief industries are female academies." I take it for granted that you have never been to Va. or heard mention of that state. Please visit us or look it up and correct your statement in an early issue of TIME. If you do, we will excuse you this time...
...Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths. At times the cloud peaks on the horizon looked exactly like a land of mountains. At other times they took on the appearance of a beautiful lake or river...
...July 31, 1914 (the day before Germany declared war on Russia) Prince Oscar, then a youth of 26, utterly disgusted the Court by espousing in morganatic union a comparative nobody: Ina Maria, Countess of Brassewitz. That a royal prince should look no higher was considered in the very poorest taste. That Prince Oscar and his countess should settle down in unobtrusive happiness to the duty of rearing children (four), was deemed commendable but dull...
...reasons for not presenting myself to the Academy? They concern me alone. Look here. Here are my books, my Demosthenes, my garden. I have lived my life and I can confide to you what now is my one principle: one must never tell what one feels, knows or sees. That is why I am not going to talk under the cupola of the Academy. That is why I shall continue to commune with myself in silence. In my day the journalists did the talking for the public. These days the public talks for the journalists...
...Epworth League, founded in 1889, for Methodist young people, has similar aims. Its motto is "Look Up, Lift Up"; its membership...