Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot write too enthusiastically about these meetings with Mr. Santayana. I came to discuss a thesis on his philosophy but I've stayed to be charmed by his cordiality, his wit and his kindness. He lives alone here in Rome in modest rooms on the top floor of the Hotel Bristol. When I first saw him he was with Mr. Daniel Cory, his assistant, and was dressed in a dressing gown and slippers, as he wrote me I would find him. One day perhaps I shall send you an account of the more serious aspect of our conversations but suffice...
...keep their employes from organizing to better themselves, Harlan operators have organized a County Association. Conveniently hazy about details, the Association's Secretary George B. Ward blandly informed his Senate inquisitors: "I haven't kept records because I've been expecting an investigation like this for three or four years." One of the biggest expenditures last year was $8,000 for "expenses" paid to a deputy sheriff named Ben Unthank, regularly on the Association payroll at $150 per month. Secretary Ward professed total ignorance of what Deputy Unthank did with the money...
...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...
...Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers, son & namesake of the late American Federation of Labor's founder, celebrated his soth anniversary in Government service in Washington. Declared he: "If I were a wealthy man, I would want nothing better to occupy my time and mind than this job I've got." After booking steamer reservations to England for himself and three blonde secretaries, Thomas Franklyn (''Tommy") Manville Jr., playboy asbestos heir, canceled the trip, explaining that he had reneged, not because his estranged fourth wife Marcelle Edwards had reserved passage on the same boat, but because...
When asked the old stand-by, "How do you like Harvard men?" she answered "Oh, I've met them before," and later she intimated that they were "lousy with rhythm." Being surrounded by ardent admirers and perhaps wishing to avoid being the cause of a civil war in New England, she refused to comment on the merits of the sons...