Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find all sorts of interesting things if you keep your eyes open. That's what people say, but eagle-eyed as I am, I never once found anything interesting until Monday afternoon, When I noticed a piece of a certain Housemaster's' stationery in a gutter. It was note admonishing an undergraduate for parking a car in a reserved space. "I have been put to a good deal of trouble," the note began, "and some expense, arrange for this reserved parking space. It is for the convenience of my wife, my guests, and myself...
...Chicago market researcher dug up last week this 1944 note from Senator Harry S. Truman: "Replying to your questionnaire regarding [political] polls, I am not familiar with them, don't know anything about them, and have no opinion on them except that most of them are inaccurate...
Most of North China's people accepted the Red threat with wizened calm. A typical point of view was shown by a note on the bulletin board of a club in Tangshan, center of the richest coal-mining region in all Nationalist China. The note read:"For sale-Hawaiian guitar, on view at the club. Keep your spirits up by playing the above. (Signed) Honorable Secretary...
Promised Land. Not all tourists were concerned with shopping alone. The Havana weekly Bohemia added a social note...
Said he: "If I play a blue note, I'll frown at the other musicians the way I do when I conduct. Then people won't know I was the one who made the mistake." As it turned out, no one had to frown, least of all "Papa" Monteux. Said he, when it was all over: "There's nothing like that. A quartet is the most pure music-just pure, pure, pure. It's not all messed up with orchestrations...