Word: avidity
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...rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard of the average American magazine, altogether irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer" is touching enough. We do not wonder...
...first thing which students are asked to remember is that the circulation of printed letters does not always stop with the CRIMSON; that words in any way colored are almost sure to find quick publication in newspapers elsewhere. The nasty side of a question is presented to avid readers in Chicago, Barnsville, and Kokomo,--with never a word on the true merits of the case. The news is warped in transit until the middle-westerner believes Harvard a hot-bed of immorality and a nursery of vice. The first thing, then, is to couch your arguments in temperate terms...
...false lines will snap with a loud whang and the fun will be seen to burst forth. Games at tiddletywinks on fly paper have been arranged between the Whistle, the Opera, and the other clubs. At a seasonable time swift blacks will slip wholesome clams amongst the avid throng...