Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been with malice." As for Maragon's perfume smuggling, "I certainly could not condone it in my own brother, even...
Test No. 1. St. Laurent's first big test in public life came in 1944 when his own French Quebec lined up against conscription for overseas service. Although most politicians thought he was committing political suicide, St. Laurent came out for the draft. In the next election, he astounded everybody by posting a record majority in his Quebec riding (Quebec East, once held by Laurier...
...outside interference. Said President Urriolagoitia darkly: "This rebellion has international roots." In Buenos Aires, the Bolivian ambassador called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...
When I have painted a fine picture, I haven't expressed a thought. Or so they say. What fools people...
...wrote Eugène Delacroix, one of the 19th Century's most earnest painters. In an exhibition of Delacroix and his contemporaries at the master's old Paris studio last week, students were searching for the thoughts in some of his best works. On the surface, many of the paintings looked like mere blood & thunder illustration. Delacroix had applied his fierce imagination and brilliant, Rubensesque draftsmanship to an endless series of somber myths, tiger hunts and desert duels. His chief thought seemed to be: "It's a cruel world, and one in which men play a bravely...