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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slushypipp | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Diet | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...when he settles down to read this commentary on Harvard life--entitled, incidentally, "Out of the Bellglass"--he may be a little startled. For he will see what attempts to be a portrait of himself and what is indeed a caricature at best, an effigy at worst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...senior, while rejoicing at any original note in the Album, may wonder if he has been painted from life, if this is the kind of picture he wants bandied about by posterity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the department. The fellowship for the study of modern art is not a "hollow mockery" but will certainly help in the consideration of art in relation to the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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