Word: availables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...notorious fact that nations, as nations, never repent. The North expected the South to repent the Civil War-without avail. But Grant's magnanimity and Lee's gentlemanliness after the war did much to bridge a yawning chasm of hate...
...party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried the day, but held the Parliament building. A desperate Government Bench, not being able to hear itself think, finally ordered the removal of the communists from the Chamber, and a few moments later the Parliamentary Guard carried the unruly members out to the martial strains...
...real battlefield of personality is, of course, musical comedy. Any number of good tunes, clever librettos, gorgeous settings, avail nothing without personality in the cast. A comedian is about as laughable as an undertaker without...
...clock in the afternoon in the Quiet Room of the Union. Professor H. E. Clifford will confer with all men interested during the morning hours while Dean Hughes and Professor L. J. Johnson '87 will hold office hours in the afternoon. All members of the University who wish to avail themselves of this privilege may sign for conference periods in a blue-book placed for this purpose on the desk in the Main Reading Room at Widener. This book will remain there until 5 o'clock today and will then be reserved to the Union in order that conference periods...
...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...