Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside of the Park, where thugs and bogey men have been very active lately...
...twinklingly told the world that he is a greater man than Shakespeare, has now written a fable that will further shock the righteous. In it he puts himself on a level with Voltaire. Christ and Mohammed; he is a hero and the God of the Old Testament is a bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric colonels might take their apoplectic death from reading The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search...
These arguments are strong and as yet unanswered. The bogey of House rushing, of course, will be given a chance to raise its ugly head. But if the limitation be strict, this need not materialize. And even if it did, there is considerable question as to whether it would not be outweighed by the advantage of giving the Freshman some concrete basis for selection. Then, too, there is the fear that dining halls will be overcrowded. In answer, it is easy to point out that the same fears attended the inauguration of the present inter-House arrangement, and that with...
...first thing you know, union is simply a ratification of a condition that already exists." Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, delegate to last year's stalled Disarmament Conference, spoke on "The Church and World Peace." The Federal Council blenched a bit when its old bogey, Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell...
...Statisticians burrowed into their records and announced that the price was the lowest recorded since 1852, four years after the Board of Trade was founded. Viewing the estimated North American surplus of 700,000,000 bu., economists predicted still lower prices. Where once $1 wheat was a bogey, 40? wheat seemed now a plain probability...