Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every afternoon this week, the Dance Committee will hold office hours in the Lampoon Building from 2 to 3 o'clock, to give information and answer questions concerning subscriptions or arrangements for boxes. It is urged that these matters be submitted to it at once. All subscriptions to be accepted must be in the hands of the Committee by Friday of this week. Members of the class of 1929 who are eligible to attend the dance but who have not yet received subscription cards and circulars, should present themselves at the Lampoon Building before Friday. Juniors are reminded that...
...housing details of the Kansas City convention but they could not deny that they talked politics, too. What with news from Pennsylvania that Secretary Mellon had ordered an uninstructed delegation, the Hoover boom last week seemed overshadowed by a bogie named Illinois-Massachusetts-New York-Pennsylvania. This bogie would answer first to the voice of President Coolidge and last to whatever candidate seemed best next June to its conjurors...
...think that question is entirely pertinent to this inquiry. ... I regret it exceedingly?and I am really not doing it through any lack of respect to the committee?but I have to decline to answer...
...hundred years have passed since young Franz Schubert was taken with typhus fever and died. Town officials were informed of his death . . . just another of those hungry-looking musical fellows. . . . They went to his lodgings, pounded on the door, pushed their way in when there was no answer. . . . They made a formal list of his leavings-six pairs of shoes, a hat, thirteen pairs of socks, a shabby suit, a blanket...
...Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America . . . demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," the National Aeronautic Association awarded the Collier Trophy last week to Charles Lanier Lawranee, designer of the Wright...