Word: steinful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castel Gandolfo, papal summer palace sat a weary, unhappy old man one day last week, gazing slowly at astronomical photographs handed to him by Rev. Giovanni Stein, director of the Vatican Observatory. Said Pope Pius XI: "If things on earth go badly, at least those in the heavens must necessarily continue well...
...decade ago shocked Hanover by revealing his experience as butler in the home of a respected faculty member (The Professor's Wife), turns to reminiscence of his long residence in Paris. Still an irrepressible extrovert, Author Imbs devotes most of his current opus to little anecdotes about Gertrude Stein. George Antheil and their respective circles...
...gentle tale, only G. Stein. And she, along with several other Radcliffe ones, did spoil my whole day. Bless my soul...
...University of Kansas in 1904-08. Fraternity records show that he got the ice cream course eliminated from the house menu, tried and failed to have only one orchestra instead of two hired for the spring lawn party, outlawed gambling in the chapter house, opposed motions to install a stein rack and to discontinue "Dr. Wilbur's Bible lessons." No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor. No "Christer," he downed his beer with other members of Theta Nu Epsilon, oldtime campus drinking society. In his one year of academic study and three years...
Autobiographers who want to tell about themselves, without giving the whole show away, have discovered there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers...