Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith in the fact that what I am doing is not wrong, but is constructive and sound educational practice and theory. I have a deep feeling that even with the superior talents of Mr. Evarts, some judge might be persuaded that the Crimson attack on me is not the sort of thing that can be done and gotten away with...
...sons and daughters of the poor farmers, salesmen, teachers, storekeepers, railroaders and small town doctors, so painstakingly enumerated in your article on Service Stations, feel sort of grapes of wrathy. The article reminded us of the report of some dowager (lorgnette and all) who had ventured across the tracks on a slumming expedition...
...Granddaughter-in-law Kyra he regards not as a Russian, but as a member of a sort of supernational European royalty...
...This sort of thing breathed o'er Manhattan for two years. A proposal to put a comfort station in the Central Park elephant house brought a politico to his feet to inquire why, in the name of Big Tim, did elephants need comfort stations? Councilman Sharkey regularly aired his heartfelt campaign to insure full measure in beer glasses. Once towering, revolutionary-stocky Fusionist A. Newbold Morris, Council president, started down from the chair, gavel in hand, after cocky little Democrat Charley Keegan from The Bronx. "Come down here," yelled Councilman Keegan, dancing joyously, "I'll cut you down...
Taken as wholes, each of these stories is almost as warm, as living, as persuasive, as if a first-rate writer had written them. But they have a woman-magazine-overtone, a sort of moral odor of Ivory Soap which gets oppressive. Thus tuned for housewives, the high quotient of safe-and-sane marriages, superior wives, is notable...