Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior was far over its mark...
...There is not much difference between the religions," said he. "It is what results in service that counts. I am trying to bring my priests to this idea, to get them away from forms. At home I wear a little red mark on my forehead and the proper turbans and costumes. ... I might apply it here by saying that a man's dress and the color and form of his caste marks would show from what city and what church he came. A New York Presbyterian would wear a certain sign. A Chicago Methodist would have another mark...
...small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark on the 10½-mi. course. The title went to Waterhouse, who won the last race by finishing three seconds behind Movie Star II. A handsome, mustachioed San Francisco captain, Waterhouse had kept well up among the leaders in the earlier races, built up a point total...
...course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel like writing an exam that day. Next day came a postcard from James saying: "I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel like that myself"; and giving her the highest mark in the class. At Johns Hopkins Medical School she also had a resounding reputation as a student, but medicine bored her ("she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious"). When she failed to take her degree she was glad to be rescued from a career that interested her so little...
...Hemingway lad been formed by the two of them and they were both a little proud and a little ashamed of the work of their minds. . . . They admitted that Hemingway was yellow, he is. Gertrude Stein insisted, just .ike the flatboat men on the Mississippi river as described by Mark Twain ... he looks like a modern and he smells of the museums. But what a story that of the real Hem. and one he should tell himself but alas he never will. After all, as he himself once murmured, there is the career, the career." Gertrude Stein once told...