Word: miter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
...drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often of the champagne of life. M. Bernard de Lacombe has seen...