Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have thought the University's protocol interesting--perhaps amusing--but, like many a Harvard man, he found what he wanted at Wellesley...
...earlier, voiceless appearances, Lloyd retains throughout "Movie Crazy" the pristine simplicity of mind, uncomplicated by thought or experience which, with face to match, always puts him on the top by the last reel...
...notebooks that bitter Mrs. Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can see and hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard in the Midwest...
...doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
Cobb's companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...