Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every concentrator regretted that it was impossible to get to know the older and more famous men in the field because they have no tutees. A great objection of all concentrators was the constantly recurring and inescapable requirement of papers and second term hour exams in other courses just before divisional examinations, especially in the case of Senior honors candidates. But the general feeling was that there is no field in the University which can return more interest and background for the amount of effort...
...great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always borrowing money from her. Except for them, she has almost no truck with the outside world...
...priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates: "How few books were utterly inevitable, perhaps half a score in the course of a century. This business of living upon books...
Unhappily this was not all sweet music to the New Dealers. First, Mr. Robinson is 64, four years older than the President's arbitrary age limit for judicial appointees. He would not be eligible to retire with pay until he had served ten years and reached 74. Having made a fuss about judges retiring at 70, Franklin Roosevelt would make himself look foolish if he appointed Senator Robinson the first time he had an opportunity to name a Justice to the Supreme Court. Second, as New Dealers well know, Joe Robinson has on many occasions been a New Dealer...
Medicine has controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...