Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus may read in future the name of the young son of Cicero Sapp, of Sunday comic fame, for it was reported in yesterday's comic strips that the youthful prodigy plans to enter Harvard. In fact we are shown a picture of Cyril, high school diploma under his arm, facing a baldheaded gentleman at a desk labelled "Dean". In fairness to the occupants of University 4, it must be admitted that the gentleman pictured does not resemble any of them, but he must be a Harvard dean, for there is a large "H" on his clair and a Harvard...
...feeling of genuine regret at the passing of the old hall was mingled with a spirit of jocosity. Several tables were draped with crepe, and some of the diners wore arm bands of black...
Hung, elegant among the rabble, were two women. They did not twist in grisly contortion from any gibbet's arm, not they, but sat side by side upon a sofa which George Bellows had painted. Now, for all the intimacy of their attitudes, there was a difference in the semblance, perhaps in the very characters of these two women, apparent at once to the least curious eye, for whereas the one was garbed in all the nicety which the prevailing mode dictates, the other was naked Mr. Bellows was more successful in drawing attention to his painting than...
...already attained distinction. Its venerable oil paintings, somewhat dimmed by the vapors of hot soups and coffee, its stained glass windows, more impressive, though less frequently noted, than the stained table cloths, all have served to embellish the hall and lift it from the ranks of cafeterias and side-arm banquet places...
...walking with the rest across the yard, and into Memorial. They would like to hear the clatter of the dishes, like to sniff the faint, elusive fragrance of cooking, like to see the dusky waiter come shuffling down the long aisle, miraculously balancing seven plates of food on his arm and only occasionally dropping...