Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clipping, and months later when he saw Hendl, he presented the article and demanded his painting. When he saw it, Munch was quite impressed, and promised to show it to his friend Please. Since their the Hendl's have heard nothing, but they're still hoping for an encouraging word from Picasso...
Cory Wynn's freshman team also had a match scheduled for yesterday with Amherst, but Wynn received word over the weekend that Amherst would be unable to fulfill the engagement. The match probably will not be replayed...
...Waltham $6,000,000 to pay debts and resume production, Pearson asked: "Did Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington had the final word. What job he took was his own business. Last week a federal court gave final approval to the deal with RFC, a whistle blew at Waltham and the company started making watches again...
When the great men of his own day came his way, Aubrey recorded every word he heard. Sir Isaac Newton and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes were his friends, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans...
...story moves rapidly, by short scenes; the scenes rapidly, by short speeches; the speeches are introduced, as in a play, by the name of the character, followed by a word or two indicating his manner. Explanatory passages are short. Such methods will annoy some readers, who will feel that they are not getting a book, but only the outline of one. In a sense, they will be right. The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones...