Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal affairs, visiting his 2,800-acre farm on Pine Mountain and making out his Federal income tax.* On his first trip in his car he took Daughter-in-law Betsey, his personal secretary Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Ambassador Bullitt. To Columnist Walter Winchell, whose mind runs largely in one channel, the inference from such events was clear. Wrote Gossip Winchell...
...foreign affairs, holds a position much like that which Raymond Moley held in 1933 before he ran afoul of Secretary Hull. From Paris Mr. Bullitt telephones the White House almost daily and sends back voluminous written reports for the President's eyes alone. With a volatility of mind similar to that of Rexford Guy Tugwell, Bill Bullitt gives advice which appeals to Franklin Roosevelt...
...descendant of several First Families of Virginia. He took over the property in 1915. Thither, four years ago, was carried a strange patient, a delicate, wistful-eyed old Richmond lady who would not grow old. Her body, dressed as a little girl, was 61 years of age. Her mind and behavior were not more than seven...
...China, biggest and oldest civilized country in the world, few people can read and write. Of those few, many fewer know the "correct," classical language, in which all Chinese masterpieces have been written, time out of mind. In 1917, when China's civilization began to come rapidly apart, plain speech (pai-hua} began to be literarily respectable, is now the accepted written language for China's literates. To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories...
...fire you'll sit or who will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements of live conversation. More than anything else you can be sure of you can be sure of this, here, if you want it, there is pleasant natural education