Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...
...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
Terrible Things! Ensconced at the Ritz, last week, Grand Duke Alexander said, in fluent but slightly stilted English: "A proletarian visited me this morning. Yes, a proletarian-the clothes very rough and dirty! He had just returned from Russia. He told me terrible things! . . . But I look-the Imperial Family looks-for a change...
...Britten is a self-important ass, colleagues who have known him in the House for 15 years have yet to find it out. He is blunt, yes, and self-confident, and a bit crude at times in a blustery Chicago way. But he has never been blown up about himself...
...Yes, I have finished them," said "Papa" Joffre contentedly, "Only the other day I finished signing-initialing-the last of the 800 pages. I have signed each one. So there can be no mistake when I am dead, and they are published. I give the documents, the facts. Others may form their own opinions from them...