Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...86th birthday found Author W. Somerset Maugham in Bangkok and in the middle of his leisurely "farewell tour" of the Far East. To gratify a U.S. newsman's request, the Old Party issued a handwritten statement addressed to America. It went, in part: "Thank you for all the kindness that I have received at your hands since I first came to America 50 years ago . . . I have an idea that in two or three hundred years English will be the universal language, spoken all over the world. Of course, it won't be the English we speak...
...thank'd her for her courtesie...
...Thank you for your review of my book The Caretakers [a novel about malpractice in a low-budget mental institution named Canturbury...
...Thank you for putting that article in the Jan. 11 issue of TIME about ten-year-olds only needing ten hours of sleep...
Reading and thinking show signs of becoming almost lost arts today. Thank God (and I hope the people of Venice will pardon me the expression) there are people like Florence Russell, who are making an effort to revive them...