Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money went into producing what we feel is an outstanding work. If the CRIMSON has become so vapid and apathetic that it is unable to turn out a parody, it should be admitted. But the CRIMSON should not claim recognition for work of others. We don't claim Mr. Scott for one of ours; you don't claim Sallie Bingham for one of yours...
...Kremlin's NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV : THE American voters have shown they desire peace. They have condemned the Dulles policy of positions of strength, which is supported by Mr. Eisenhower. We hope the Democrats will change the foreign policy of the U.S. away from the brink of war. They should construct their policy with due regard for the existence of the Socialist camp. We want peaceful coexistence...
...last resort, everything depended on the Prime Minister. He, deep down, could not bring himself to admit the independence of Free France. What was more, Mr. Churchill, each time we came into collision on account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. -Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor
Working on a new novel called Lord Timothy Dexter Revisited, a guest known as Mr. Maynard kept his identity mostly secret on a ranch in Nevada's Washoe Valley. This week, his residence requirements satisfied, Mr. Maynard will have to make himself known in order to seek a divorce (after a second marriage that has lasted 21 years) as John Phillips Marquand. Meanwhile, the 65-year-old Maynard has found another love: Nevada. It "is the last frontier of the fiction writer. This is the place for a young writer to come. What this place needs is a mute...
...been said that this book has a high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples...