Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprised that you too should become confused, considering the subject with which you arc dealing, but knowing the pride of the Charlotte people I am certain they will wax quite indignant over this lack of familiarity with their prize city...
This week, passing through Chicago on his way home to Stanford University from a campaign trip in the East, Herbert Hoover paused to issue a statement, his first on the subject of his candidacy for 1936. Excerpt...
David Martin as a gift for Franklin's family when the subject was 61. Franklin specified the thumb on chin, made no objection to the warts (see cut). Ten years later Jean Baptiste Greuze made him elderly and dignified in a fur collar and fine blue velvet coat to match his eyes...
Smuts was born (1870) a British subject, because his father's farm happened to be in British territory (Cape of Good Hope), but he was an out-&-out Boer. A solemnly earnest, religious youth, he worked to such good purpose at college in Stellenbosch that he won a scholarship to Cambridge. Back in Capetown after graduation he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow...
...England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion," he started an indignant fluttering in literary incubators that has not yet died down. Poet Eliot, now a naturalized British subject, a scholarly editor (The Criterion), even more highly regarded in his foster-country than in the U. S., a devout member of the Church of England, is a puzzling phenomenon. Last week, when he published his Collected Poems, readers were curious to see what he had left...