Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Umpire Wilson's scant supply of patience was exhausted. Turning to the crowd, he screamed his decision to forfeit the game to Boston because of Cobb's behavior. Everyone seemed greatly embarrassed, with the exception of Mr. Cobb. A quick conference was held in which it was agreed that paying spectators deserved consideration. Wherefore another game was played with the ancient centre-fielder completely, conspicuously, Comfortingly (to Umpire Wilson, at least) absent...
...University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose [Oenothera]"! What services would be rendered mankind by Dr. Frederick Charles Dietz of the University of Illinois, studying "English government finance from 1558 to 1640"; or Dr. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Converse College, scrutinizing "the Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy"; or Dr. Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute...
...Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed...
...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...
...week, announced that Sarah Lawrence College would open in 1928 for some 250 young ladies. To make them appreciate their opportunities, tuition would be $1,500 per annum (no expenses to be borne by endowment). They would be instructed in liberal arts only-to inculcate interest in right social behavior, non-sectarian religion, non-partisan politics, good morals and the esthetic consumption of leisure hours by useful and becoming "hob-bies." These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first...