Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know how hasty she was. She put her hands in mine in that confiding way which is either the best or worst thing in women ? she was dressed in black velvet with a white ruff, and from her neck a thin white veil was flying?and so we came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism. Besides violating an evasive thing called "good taste", it is a fundamental error in showmanship, in which some one higher up, not the member, is blameworthy...
...Gene can stand the hot air, he may make a good thing out of his sojourn in the forest of Arlen; that is, if he can see the forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking...
...Tilden-Hayes campaign of '76. And yet the students as a whole do not seem to take much active interest When we were in college, everybody discussed politics all the time. Every-one ate in Memorial Hall then, and we had some pretty lively times. Politics was the one thing which was dominant throughout the campaign, and up to a few days before inauguration, when election was finally settled...
...strong for Hoover. The most important thing is that he is a real business man, and knows our economic situation perfectly. The best president this country ever had was a business man--George Washington. This country is a business concern, and we need a man experienced with business...