Word: mated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger that such broadness should prove superficial or produce a vaguely theoretic sentimentality should be effectively removed by the requirement of a thesis and individual research in a chosen aspect of the work. The Field of Sociology and Social Ethics, thus reorganized and widened, is a welcome and worthy mate of the present fields, and takes its legitimate place as a subject for the consideration of the Freshman class...
...American as baseball or apple pie," is what Biographer Irwin thinks his college mate is after years of industrious migration. Writer Arthur Brisbane suggests the handy parallel of Benjamin Franklin and says: "The more he saw of other countries, the better American he became...
Persons who have read the Hoover biography by his college-mate, Will Irwin*,know that Mr. Hoover was subject to croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...
...male citizens, and dives off in the wake of departing seagulls, just as a renewed upheaval submerges the island anyway. An overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that have already turned wolflike, and finally battling with brutish fellows for the possession of his woman...
...Leopard Lady. She trains the big cats. He is a first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...