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...part they couldn't see anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make it simply the butt of a jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...American innocent abroad has long been the butt of foreign laughter and scorn. In fact foreigners, from Charles Dickens to Lady Asquith, have journeyed even to our own front stoop to voice all manner of criticisms, the burden of which has ever been that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers". "Little", they tell us, "do we see in art which is ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOO MUCH WITH US | 3/21/1923 | See Source »

University Relay Race.--Won by Dartmouth (Bates, Coville, Butt, Blake); second, Cornell (Rosenthal, Blodgett, Coykendall, Crozier); third, Harvard (Chapin, Gordon, Quinn, Merrill). Time, 3m. 9 1-5s. New triangular meet record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRAILS IN TRIANGULAR MEET | 2/26/1923 | See Source »

...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHEW AND THE SMOKE | 12/16/1922 | See Source »

...Edward Marjoribanks of the Oxford team was educated at Eton, where he became Captain of the School, was Double First at Oxford in Classics, rowed in a Christ Church boat for four years and also rowed at Henley. He has been Secretary of the Canning Club (the butt of Mr. Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson") and President of the Carlton Club, both of which are conservative political clubs. At Oxford he has been Secretary-Librarian and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He is a nephew of the Marchioness of Aberdeen who came to America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX-GOVERNOR WILL PRESIDE AT DEBATE | 10/6/1922 | See Source »

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