Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-year-old girl told her mother, Mrs. Raymond Gunn, about this awful secret and advised her to be careful. Mrs. Gunn, who often had to go five times to her daughter's room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...
...served and the cast and its invited actresses sit down in costumes of She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals or perhaps Henry VI. There is no significance in this gathering; it is simply a custom of The Players, where the gentle riches of tradition prosper in seclusion. Some say the ghost of Booth that evening sits down at table...
...modern War was ugly and soulless and the British sculptors have succeeded in portraying this. The War should have had no record at all in art. Modern art is all French. Italy appears to have had her say. Russia goes from bad to worse. One of her bright sculptors executed a piece showing a pyramid standing on its apex. I suppose he was portraying a revolution. England has never had a sculptor. I cannot speak for America until I have seen what there is. I should say, from what I know, their architecture is much better than that of England...
...reached their heights in the moonlight encounter between his Bon Homme Richard and the British ship-of-war Serapis; an encounter which began when the British captain, Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came the reply: 'I can't hear what you say.' 'Answer at once,' shouted Captain Pearson, 'or I shall fire.' . . . The Richard's bo'sun leaned out of a port. 'Fire, and be damned to you.' " For a long time guns flashed in the night and the great dark sails, punched...
Wilcox went on to say "We were not so much interested in the Harvard game. We came over east to test our attack and give it a few finishing touches by playing a strong team, but the attack itself is intended for the Big Ten Conference. Our league is in the West...