Word: often
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noticeable in Symphony Hall that the Harvard speakers were chattier than the Boston College men, strayed from the microphone more often and, in a commendable effort to be chummy, unacademic and pretty understandable, did not hesitate to employ terms which would have horrified the late Messrs. Barrett Wendell and Adams Sherman Hill, dismayed the chaste Charles Townsend Copeland and disturbed the poise of Dean Briggs. Boston Herald...
...ending To sit beside, my dear For I have often told him My darling, don't you fear...
...sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story, she can substantiate it by the best evidence-a cinema of her catch taken by Mrs. Hoover herself in the same small boat...
...copyist will attend, that many a minor dressmaker will quickly ape his best creations. Like him, designers of furniture, china, fabrics, shoes, are subjected to constant "pirating" by less imaginative competitors. Their only protection now is to patent their designs-a procedure of years, during which their artful handiwork often becomes obsolete...
PROFESSOR BROOKE was fortunate in obtaining Mr. de la Mare as introducer to his collection of Shakespere's songs. It is not very often that scholar and poet walk so happily together, although one detects a certain timidity on the part of the latter. For instance, Mr. de la Mare immediately warns us that the songs were composed for dramatic and practical purposes. There is danger in scrap-booking them out of their context and the conditions that made and found them so luckily essential...