Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misdoubt I have gone too far. My optimist has carried me away and led me to overshoot the mark. The last paragraph is not true. The man who politely but firmly declines to sit in an old-fashioned chair to learn: is he worth educating? Can he be educated? Who dare answer? Frederic Cunningham...
...year-old Leverett House senior who escaped death yesterday morning after plunging before an MTA train at the Harvard Square station, was reported in "fairly good" condition late last night at McLean Hospital in Belmont...
...scene is set at the French embassy in London. The ambassador is away, and his seven-year-old son Felipe is living there in care of the butler, Baines, and his wife. Thanks to the skillful acting and directing, one sees the whole first part of the film from Felipe's point of view: his idolization of Baines and their comradeship, the ceaseless tension between Baines and his paranoid wife, Baines' subsequent affair with one of the secretaries at the embassy...
City Fathers. In Rowley Regis, England, the town council voted to install violet street lamps after local girls complained that the old yellow ones were unflattering and thus a hindrance to romance...
...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...