Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refer TIME (Sept. 2, 1929) quote "From what I know I would say that his [Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt] main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horse breeding establishments in the world where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood etc." "TIME will tell...
...contemporary local interest to Boston readers is the comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
...pass the huntsman, say 'Thank you, good night...
...When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and hallooed away for centuries. It is nothing...
...Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year...