Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, since I overheard Robert, I was able to take the paper away from him and explain that a gentleman or an honest person of any sort would not do such a thing: I am sure that Robert understands, but I cannot help feeling that much harm may have been done to other children...
Such a trip, observers thought, would be of the very biggest empire service, since it would enable all Canadians to see what a very satisfactory sort of man lives at No. 10 Downing Street, London, and performs the great task which Britons proudly term "muddling through." Typical of friendly Canadian comment last week was an item boxed on the front page of the Toronto Globe...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face - on the part of the Cincinnatians who do not ordinarily use their main streets for that sort of sport...
...Soviets. The present diplomatic separation between Great Britain and the Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They...