Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States arbitrator has refused to serve as an agent of crime and is serving as an agent of justice...
...Paraclete in his time plays many parts. Like the famous Italian lightning change actor. Fregolu whose name he takes, he can shift at will from Gypsy Fortune-Teller to American Theatrical-Manager, from the brazen trigamist to the tender agent of phonograph records, from Capuchin Monk to Harlequin himself in the latest of his thousand and one Harlequinades. Such sudden shifts will offer a splendid opportunity for the versatile acting of Eduardo Sanchez '26, the President of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Chief Justice Taft, in the Carroll case, said: 'It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search...
...been found in securing capable exponents for both sides of the question. On the affirmative side, arguing for a deduction in the football program will be M. A. Cheek '26, Captain of this year's gridiron squad; R. H. Field '26, Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and press agent of this fall's football releases; and E. J. Metzdorf '26, temporary Vice-President of the Debating Union, Backing the present system will be N. S. Howe '26, halfback on the University squad for three years; J. F. Barnes, Assistant Managing Editor of the CRIMSON; and Major Cavanaugh...
...proper name "Pandarus." Need I add that Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...