Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...regards clothing and behavior, however, we have regulations, whereas you are governed merely by personal taste. The enforcement of the regulation concerning the wearing of caps and gowns is in the hands of the proctor, who always takes two men with him popularly called "bulldogs" to catch any culprits. It is something of a game of hide-and-seek for the bulldogs cannot fine a student unless they catch him off college grounds...
...their sentencing, capital punishment was not inflicted because the two sentences of 99 years for kidnapping and of life for murder seemed to guarantee their imprisonment for the rest of their lives, but due to an error the two sentences are being served at once and with good behavior they can be released after only ten years imprisonment...
Barb Two: Germany is scrupulously fulfilling her Versailles Treaty obligations. Therefore, reminded Herr Müller, the Allies are reciprocally obligated (by a clause in the Treaty) to reward German good behavior with some such concession as early evacuation of the Rhineland...
...Kent's daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is a sort of scorecard by which to tell the players. Political Behavior is a rulebook telling, for the benefit of a people whose political illusions are many, the rules by which the Great Game is played on a national scale...