Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often that such innuendos are tossed at the President and Fellows of Harvard college. It is even rarer when the authors of such remark include a former member of an Overseers Visiting Committee and a former member of the Corporation. Yet, these two, John S. Ames '01 and Grenville Clark '03 are two out of some six hundred persons who feel increasingly bitter toward the Corporation. The University is seldom publicly charged with breach of trust, but, when it is, one can be sure there is bad blood involved. The storm over the Arnold Arboretum is no exception...
...remark embodied more than a mere geographical misconception about the location of upstate New York. It also revealed a certain critical attitude of mind toward a University with so many departures from the New England norm...
...nothing. Later on, when the boys were at an English-run boarding school in Germany, they found some cricket flannels still marked with their right names and tore out the labels with the desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads." In time, to make security even more certain, the boys were separated, Cyril to stay on in Germany, Vyvyan to be sent to a Jesuit school in Monaco...
Three days later, the suspicion was confirmed. Poet Blunt caught Emily alone, enfolded her in "a very hot embrace" and said: " 'Emily, might I come and see you in your room?' I replied indignantly: 'Certainly not!'. . . His remark could only have one meaning, I'm afraid...
...your Aug. 2 story, "How to Live to 100": Please be informed of the remark made to the press last April 6 by Mrs. Athalie Neuvelle of Angouleme, France, who, on her joist birthday, declared: "I've always preferred cognac to doctors...