Word: amenability
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...that Coue and King Tut-ankh Amen have begun to pall on the readers of our popular dailies, the journalists are feeling the need of a new sensation to fill their papers with copy and their dinner pails with sandwiches. Fortunately, for them, the obliging American athletes contributed materially to Oxford's victories on Saturday, both in track and crew; and the Sunday sporting pages rang with the "glad news" of American supremacy, while editorials sounded serious warnings of "this dangerous American Imperialism". The cause of all this turmoil was the presence of two Americans in the Oxford shell...
...House to pass this legislation to help the children." Sir George Hamilton (Conservative) had a witty passage of arms with the " noble lady," ending his final assault with a suggestion for a saloonkeeper's prayer: " From all grandmotherly legislation, good Lord deliver us." Lady Astor rose and added " Amen...
...Significant Periods in the History of Choral Music". The Glee Club will also sing the following seventeenth century choral selections: Adoramus Te, Palestrina Now Let Every Tongue, Bach Adieu, Sweet Amarillis, Millbye Fire, Fire, My Heart, Morley Crucifix, Bach The Hunter's Farewell, Mendelssohn We Praise Thee, Schvedov Hallelujah, Amen Handel...
...fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic man had telephone connections with the adjacent caves or that Pharaoh toured his land in a horseless carriage...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...