Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...
...opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, explaining that he does not propose to spend any on the election either. This attitude, which might be pose in another politician, seems natural to anyone who knows Homer Bone...
...minor sequel to the article occurred when the Boston American sent its star photographer, Jack Dixon, to the Yard to take pictures of the new phenomena. Dixon snared two students and had them pose on the steps of University Hall, wearing large black handlebars. "Thanks a lot," he said when he had finished, "Say, what's your name...
...further suggest that the "million U. S. taxpayers" who, like myself, have long awaited news of this inevitable accident contribute to a fund to erect a monument commemorating the spot. What would be more fitting than to have Ellis Colvin pose for the sculptor, assuming the position he had the moment before the calamity fell? What do other tax (W)PAyers say to this...
Repeated in letter after letter, his pessimism often seems querulous, disdainful, frequently degenerating to an unpleasant pose. But his last letters, written during the War, when his old friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved...