Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widow of Charles Dickens were pleading for his son. What could M. Poincaré answer? Next day Mme. Alphonse Daudet opened a long, crisp envelope, read the Premier's reply: "Your letter, Madame, has profoundly moved me, but awakens in me no remorse. . . . Need I remind you that at the request of your son's friends I intervened at the time of Phillipe's death so that his body might be taken in secret to his home? . . . "From the first no one desired more ardently than I that the entire truth be known about this death. Recently...
...could doubt her perseverance in maintaining those heights, or in venturing beyond them. Those who do not understand a popular phrase concerning "indifference" need but read this latest benediction of Harvard upon American education. Harvard is "indifferent", indifferent to mediocrity...
...Write my memoirs? Jamais! Never! Why should I? I do not need to write them. The people of France will do me justice anyhow -eventually...
...taxicab spokesman replied that 17,000 was only 2% of the total vehicle registration in New York City, that New Yorkers want and need cabs at all hours. The Times, without warning, waxed humorous, and said: "Mr. McAdoo may be pardoned the slight hyperbole. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the average load of a taxicab in these parts is .83 of a passenger. Private automobiles offend to a somewhat less degree, averaging 1.7 passengers and just a trace of dog -generally...
...Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone the conclusion of his own fantasy