Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, the Capitol and other Government buildings." But they either ignore, or footnote, a fact which is always emphasized in Canadian versions of the same event: the "vandalism" was really "revenge." U.S. troops a year earlier had just as wantonly burned York (now Toronto), capital of what was then Upper Canada...
...cold tongue. As a politician, he doesn't know what time it is. Six months ago he was generally rebuked by the press, not for his assertions that certain Americans are Fascists, but for not naming them. Last week his passion for labeling his opponents got the upper hand again...
...Malvern College, Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told an audience of upper-crust British boys that more socialism has been accomplished in Britain by the Conservative Party, which opposes socialism, than by the Labor Party, which espouses it. Added Mr. Morrison: "This is the funny thing about British politics, which only an Englishman understands, and not many of them understand it, but this is how we get along...
...Once again I rearranged the teeth in wax and made my patient play. I soon discovered that the tip of the tongue had too much room between the occlusion of the front upper and lower. . . . To correct this condition, I reset the front teeth several times. . . . For the final test he tried the famous William Tell duet full of staccatos and he passed with colors flying...
Tennyson and Nature. Daniel Macmillan died, and prospering Alexander moved to "The Elms" in London's Upper Tooting. Writers, clergymen and artists flocked to his house. One of these visitors was the great clerical dignitary, Master of the Temple Alfred Ainger. The Master's evening readings of Shakespeare were famously good and deservedly famous because he himself became so excited that he would suddenly break forth, "Pucklike, into a shadowy dance, swift, graceful, unreal." Another favorite of Alexander's, in fact his idol, was Alfred Lord Tennyson, who did nothing more spectacular than to walk and smoke...