Word: told
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...person can approach such a laborer in the right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal...
...conception of the role of fussing child-wife was perhaps a trifle artificial, but Irene Fenwick played it to the last bit. She fussed, and petted, and talked, talked, talked until every male in the audience who had ever been told to put on his rubbers squirmed in sympathy. The Northcote family was the acme of incompatability...
Three times this fall I have been told how the nitre is treated to make a most desirable base for the cocktail that is said to be almost as good as the real thing--and all "within the gates" of this venerable sea of learning and research work...
...everything ends happily as of course it should in a fairy-tale, has already been told. It should be noted, though, that no fairy-tale of old ever had quite so happy an ending as this genial one of Lady Gregory...
Harvard University bears on its records the name of many famous and honored visitors, but few of them can outshine the new name which is to be added today--that of Robert Georges Nivelle. So long as the story of Verdun is told will its defender be remembered as one of the great generals of the war; his defense of the city was not merely a strategic victory in itself--it shattered the German morale, and brought relief and encouragement to the forces of the Allies fighting against despair and doubt...