Word: oftenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some of the House dining halls could be closed for one or more meals during the weekend. Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, criticized this proposal strongly; he pointed out that House dining halls are often more crowded on Saturdays and Sundays than during other parts of the week...
...often had to take a back seat to Cole's first love: the Cadillac engine. Even at parties Cole slipped out to his car to tinker with it. Once, working to tone down engine noise, Cole tiptoed into a party while everyone was standing around a piano and singing. He hauled out his longtime crony, Harry Barr, now Chevy's chief engineer. Said Cole, starting the car, "Listen!" Barr listened, said it sounded fine, and went back in to sing. But Cole stayed outside, listening to his engine music all night. "That," says Barr...
...medical treatments are themselves enough to turn all but the most indifferent stomachs. In writing so exact that the reader constantly wants to cry halt, Author Ellis mounts a picture of torture-Davenant's bloody sputum, his overpowering fatigue, his successive operations. With a callousness that is often the byproduct of continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure...
Surpassing Courage. In this setting, Paul Davenant's will to die often seems stronger than his will to live, and more than once, suicide seems preferable to treatment. What makes life tolerable is his love affair with a girl patient, whose courage surpasses his; her simple presence makes it seem necessary to outwit and outfight the disease. For the first time in his life, he knows love, but he knows it only because it is framed in suffering...
Dinner and what followed were usually the most taxing of rituals. At 5 p.m., everyone assembled in the dining room at Longwood, Napoleon's home, officers in dress uniform, ladies in low-cut gowns. Napoleon bolted his food, and often ate with his hands. After dinner, there were games. If the game was chess, the officers had to stand throughout, and Napoleon almost invariably lost unless the other player sycophantically threw the game. At other times, Napoleon read aloud from Racine, Corneille and Moliere. Sometimes he held the little band spellbound with accounts of his great campaigns. After...