Word: note
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trouble him and sought expression. He would sit down heavily, remove his battered gray Homberg. . . He would then launch an impassioned tirade against Vollard or less gens de commerce." Contrast this with a newspaper account of the exhibition and opening. "Pots of yellow and white chrysanthemum lent a festive note, and the guests were served punch and hot bouillon with lrtiny sandwiches. . . Mrs. Wore her coronation gown of blue and silver brocade with bands of rhinestones, and was trying to discern which was the woman and which the hat in the painting entitled. "Woman With a Hat." (And Rouault...
...dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...
Willkie ended his campaign on the same strenuous note he pitched it soon after he wrested the nomination from the Republican convention. He addressed the women of America, appeared on a broadcast with his running mate, Sen. Charles E. Mc Nary of Oregon, and at midnight conducted an "extraordinary" last word program...
...Dispatched to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, head of France's Vichy Government, a note believed to contain a warning that French territories in this hemisphere would be taken under U. S. protectorship if Vichy and Germany moved against the status quo of those territories...
...high note in unconscious irony was struck last week by Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, which editorialized: "Money is still needed to finance the Willkie campaign. . . . Greatly increased numbers of contributors mean a significant and healthy broadening of the base. ... All over the country smaller contributors are acting in the lively spirit of the man who pinned to his gift: My candidate's name's Wendell Willkie, His tones are not honey or sillkie; He's the first man in years To call forth my cheers, So-good luck with this $5.00 billkie...