Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private citizen" deserving no public attention. Smaller than Brother Herbert, Brother Ted is short and stocky, with features and expressions about the eyes and mouth that resemble the President's. He, too, made money as a mining engineer, retired to Palo Alto to teach. Bronchitis kept him from the inaugural...
History may add a line to this quarrel, a line setting forth that Atheist Clémenceau and Catholic Foch kept their differences from exploding at the time, won together the victory of world's greatest grandeur...
...potent Chinese who thus sounded basso profundo last week was Yen Hsishan, hairy-chested "Model Governor" of Shansi province, the man who has kept his own province peaceable while civil war has festered the rest of China, the leader of this year's spring rebellion against the Nationalist Government...
...Bavarian village of Bayreuth that night, while millions of her country-folk heard the grave music broadcast over the nation, a spare, withered old lady lay peacefully in death. Although no one kept watch over her as over the bodies of kings and statesmen, the old lady did not appear to be alone. On her coffin lay a faded photograph of 50 years ago. Next day when she was carried the 40 miles to Coburg the photograph went too; stayed close to her when she was carried into the city crematorium and a string quartet sounded the measured strains...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 32, author (All Quiet on the Western Front); by Else Jeanne Zamboni Remarque, 37; in Berlin. The decree was granted in January but kept secret by her continuing a member of his household...