Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second plan, considerably more liberal, would allow the guest to pay for his own meal. In cases where this is desired, a special slip would be provided; in one blank space the guest would fill in the name of his House; in another place the host would affix his countersign. The difficulties of book-keeping should not be measurably increased, for these special slips could be separated, sent to the House where the guest resides, added to his own slips, and then counted in with his quota. The countersign of the host would be required and would insure practically...
Chicago intelligentsia have long been aware of Mrs. Hutchins' psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of stage directions and remarks, while her friend Professor Mortimer Adler of her husband's psychology department attempted to clear things up by reciting explanatory poems in free verse. A typical Adler...
...Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
...contributed to it, and it had a special place on the reading-tables of all those who were creating American literature. Though it has never lost its popularity, its audience has changed: the literati of the East no longer suport it as they did, and the time-honored subscription blank has been inherited in great part by the school-teachers and cultured ladies of the Middle West. The Atlantic has existed for some time in its own by no means ineffectual twilight, and even when it discussess modern problems, it seems to be at one saving remove from reality...
Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...