Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30 pleasingly proportioned young females of assorted races. It was no use-too much of a good thing-and grizzled Marshal Chang sailed off conquistadoring...
...this he told. Then he gave his body measurements and concluded, for whatever use it might be to Medicine: "I have been fond of music and literary work. Poor in mathematics. Not much given to sports. Have not used tobacco, alcoholic liquors or narcotics...
...Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish with obvious labor in it). He demonstrates that the "psycho-historian" should be "then-minded." In addition to Henry and his immediate group, he gives an enlightening picture of contemporary Europe...
Last week he was saying: "It is difficult being so young and presiding over men much older and more experienced . . . but I have gone ahead ignoring my youth and generally there is nothing to remind me of it except occasions like this when there is nothing much to be said except that I am only...
...first lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth" Not only must she be the first lady of a University, but the first lady "culturally" of a City which, perhaps faster than any other in the world, is gyrating toward cultural coherence...