Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bertie was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
...brothers Goncourt described Dumas once: "a kind of a giant with the hair of a Negro, the salt beginning to mix with the pepper, and with little blue eyes buried in his flesh like those of a hippopotamus, clear and mischievous; and an enormous moon face, exactly the way the cartoonists loved to draw him . . . You at once the showman of freaks and prodigies, the vendor of wonders; the traveling salesman for the Arabian nights." At all hours of the day and night, Dumas shoveled food into himself as into a coke furnace. Groaning from violent stomach cramps and unable...
Princeton officials claimed that they told the Crimson team about the change in time. Owens disputed this contention, and said he will investigate the mix-up. He said that the meet was an "unimportant one, anyhow...
...fragmented into half a dozen parties and factions, eliminating the one force for political stability. When Mirza finally pressured Mohamad Ali, a shy and indecisive public servant, into resigning the premiership (TIME, Sept. 17), he knew that he had to replace him with a man more willing to mix in the political free-for-all and more able to involve grass roots support...
...Americans were in port-and as these absences lengthened, Okichi consoled herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself painfully to the banks of the Inubusawa River, she committed suicide...