Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But if his students had seen him exchanging banter with his friends, or mingling on familiar terms with country people, fishermen and farmers, they would have thought him less formidable. And what they took for irascibility was often only a pedagogical technique. He was impatient with laziness, carelessness, or discourtesy...
He could, to be sure, be dramatic, as on the occasion when a window blind was slamming at Radcliffe. He marched across the room, raised the window, and threw the blind to the ground a story below, remarking "There's more than one way to stop a blind when it...
It was clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood...
One of the guests at the royal wedding was little Prince William of Prussia (later the German Kaiser) who was seated between two of his British uncles who were wearing kilts. "The little boy amused himself by sinking his teeth and his nails alternately into the bare legs of his...
Very little credit has ever gone to the gruff, dour little Chicago lawyer. He was 67 on March 15, and the most careful search of the records fails to show any major occasion in the 67 years where any substantial group of citizens or high officials (or even low officials...