Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alongside, in case one of the brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling by investment their income. Charles was the most picturesque of all, a sentimentalist. Said he: "I go out to the 'menagerie,' and look my monkeys and tigers and lions in the face. It is there I see my measure. . . . When a tiger snarls at me ... I look him in the face. . . .What have I done that I shouldn...
Fatman Roedel was, it seemed, an employe of reputation as substantial as his physique. Even when patrons of the theatre complained that he crowded them in his elevator, he was retained for his faithfulness. And then had come forgers, offering him $15,000 to "look the other way" while they entered an office in the theatre building and drew bogus checks. Mr. Roedel's duplicity had been discovered through his girl friend, aged 19, whose heart he had won with free cinema tickets and whom he had taken to live with him in a $325-per-month Fifth Avenue...
...Harvard friend wrote to me last week and told me that one of the things that remained most vividly in his memory was his visit to the Harvard chapel in Southwark Cathedral. He asked me if I would go and look up an entry for him in the visitors' book which is kept at the entrance to the chapel...
...understanding. America has a great belief in education; it has faith in education and wants it, but just what it is that it wants is not very clear. Our typical expression is "Culture or bust". Here it is "understanding or bust", and I think that we ought to look at both sides of this situation. America is determined to have education and is willing to pay for it. The money that is poured into the institutions of learning is almost scandalous. One of the greatest difficulties in teaching and administration is that so much of the teachers' and administrators' time...
...Does any one beholding this woman sitting there in her stiff uniform of discretion . . . look into her lustreless-looking eyes and believe for a moment that those eyes are looking through anything but a mask...