Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week that hardy statesman, that skilful graphic artist in words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted...
Vice President Charles G. Dawes sat with head bent forward. Few famed politicians can decently attend an operatic performance; if they laugh and talk, it is perceived that they care nothing for music; if they sit silent, it is supposed that they are asleep. The Vice President may have been defamed by people who did not know that, as a youth he was accounted a virtuoso on the violin; that he still solaces his bitter moods with fiddling; that he is a composer...
Britons reflected that the newly chosen Viceroy, although a Conservative, is known to have a Liberal bent. Eton, Christ Church and the traditional round of aristocratic preferment have smoothed his path. As Under Secretary for the Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy...
...firm precedent for nationwide undergraduate straw ballots on the League of Nations, presidential candidates, Prohibition, disarmament, the lecture system, chapel attendance, etc. Usually the organizer and his fellows are connected with an undergraduate newspaper which they wish to make famous for its feats in their year, or they are bent upon making a name for themselves, or they are inspired by a faculty idealist, or they are simply overflowing with exuberance and vitality which their curricular, athletic and cheerleading labors fail completely to absorb...
...most lamentable occurrence was called to our attention the other day. It appears that a few seniors, on pleasure bent, made a desperate effort to attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...