Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such abstruse connections, William Bolitho ties his subjects to an arbitrary definition of "adventurer" and a theatrical title. Thus also, with a stretched premise, he gives himself an excuse for an eccentric examination of their behavior, scandals, intentions, tragedies...
...administration more efficient in imposing its ideas, it will, and its regulations on the student body. It seems to be a principle in the minds of today's higher educators that they, as well as the secondary educators, should have an outfit of morals and a standard of behavior to impart rather rigidly to their charges. Regimenting the students into a routine of dormitory living and eating seems to be as convenient a way as any of propagating the doctrine of the straight and narrow...
...Havana last week Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez Signed a city ordinance forbidding the use of rear view mirrors in taxicabs. Citizens had complained that cab drivers were using the mirrors for "the impudent eyeing of the pulchritude and behavior of passengers." Safe therefore from the impudent eyes of Cuban cabdrivers was U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, who last week presented his credentials to President Gerardo Machado as successor to Ex-Ambassador Col. Noble Brandon Judah...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
...greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside, confident that the men in both institutions will celebrate the usual mysteries uninhibited by the "good-behavior" self-conciousness inspired by drill sergeant reception committees and the tramp of marching...