Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sally Fairfax. "If ever a man had need of woman's kindness, Washington needed it now. He was disgusted with the world of men. He had finished with 'the Art Military.' Being only 22, it was perhaps natural that he should turn for comfort to an older woman. He had had enough of proposing to 14-year-old chits...
...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...
...great body of them, in the Chicago manner, arrived just on the minute, blocked the great doors of Orchestra Hall. All but a few most improper people were in time to see a trim little man scoot out alone, take a score of hurried, jerky bows and turn his back on them. Weber's Euryanthe overture was soon commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Conductor Frederick Stock had chosen it, played it easily, precisely, as he had played it many times before...
Recommendations of this Athletic Council will go to the Student Council for ratification and in turn will be presented to the final governing body in Harvard Athletics, the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports of which Bingham is Chairman, and which consists, in addition to three undergraduates, of three members of the Faculty, and three graduates...
...other automobiles which do not park, if coming from Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street on Western Avenue about two hundred yards from Gate No. 8. If coming via Cambridge by the, Parkway from Boston they will be required, to unload and turn at DeWolfe Square on the Parkway about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...