Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were more whispers when word went about that Mrs. Edge had administered a charming rebuke to Vice President Dawes. It happened at a recent dinner party given by the Edges. Mr. Dawes pulled out his underslung pipe during the salad course, asked Mrs. Edge: "You really wouldn't mind if I smoked my pipe...
Further compliments to M. Tchitcherin included reference to his "nervous mind," his "preference for bad over good sources of information," and his "malevolent bias which makes pure invention the basis or support of his policy...
...century later, on the same day, Shrove Tuesday-a week ago-half a million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
...reproductions of Old Master drawings is now on view in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. The reproductions are from the New York dealer, E. Weyhe, and will be for sale to members of the University until March 4. The mention of Old Master drawings usually calls to mind many academic heads, many chubby putti, many nudes in red chalk, all manifesting the years of devoted study passed in repeating the forms of the schools for the purpose of creating pretentious paintings which can be classified as being in the style of this or that master. This...
...parents were too poor to keep him at home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely?while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that...