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...habit of falsifying the Record, even if the Senator from New Mexico is." "We are all fond of the Senator from Virginia. He takes advantage of that fact to insult his colleagues freely...
...liked to pull at every kind of hanging-curtains, table cloths, ropes, visitors' skirts. She recognized people by their clothes better than by their faces, by the smell of their chests and arm pits better than by their clothes. Donald recognized faces readily. Gua was fond of poking her fingers in people's mouths. Donald liked to tweak noses...
...graduation from the University of Chicago and literary odd jobs in Chicago and Manhattan, Wescott went abroad to live and has been there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...
...statement [on the results of the MacDonald-Roosevelt discussions in Washington] it was said that commercial policies needed a new orientation. I know who drafted that sentence. The Prime Minister drafted it. The Prime Minister, as a matter of fact, is very fond of high-sounding words and I am sure he was very well pleased with himself when he got that sonorous word 'orientation' into his statement. Orientation originally meant a moving toward the East, and I suggest the real meaning of the phrase was the necessity of dealing with Japanese commercial competition...
...which indicates that the Hoot has once more been mumbo-jumboed by the roll of a mighty name. The symposium emits from three graduate editors, Selden Rodman and William Harlan Hale of "Common Sense," and Richard S. Childs, who is, we are informed, in Washington because he is very fond of zoos. Their product will be familiar to anyone who has heard the Nation speak out loud and bold, for it makes us once more privy to the fact that some undergraduates do not think enough about social problems, to the fact that there are many people in the United...