Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Miss Leigh, in real life Mrs. Herbert Leigh Holman, wife of a London barrister and mother of a five-year-old daughter: "I am grateful beyond words." Said Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, to whom Producer Selznick characteristically announced the news in a789-word telegram: "I'm so glad it's all settled...
...untutored occidental eye, "quaint" is the word for Persian miniature paintings. Humay Meeting Humayun (see cut), painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree...
...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...
...guess he would have me come over wearing my clerical collar-and get murdered. . . . Any word or action of the Spanish Loyalist Government friendly to the Church must be taken as a sign of fraud, or of self-deception, or of the repudiation of its principles...
...sincere and genuine encouragement given to extra-curricular activities and sports in the part of President Conant's report relating to the College is indeed a welcome word. The President has been generally thought of as little concerned with any sort of academic affair not at least indirectly tied up with "studies." His support for concentration conferences and House discussion groups was rather to be expected as in the indirect study line, but the boost for outside initiative and the declaration that "no one need fear overemphasis on studies" should serve to dispel the unfortunate and disagreeable shadow which...