Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case, the Student Vagabond has returned to his haunts, and while for obvious reasons he cannot, as he promised in the fall, find actual violets blossoming by the wayside, nevertheless, he has no doubt that there are a number of flowers, blushing--we trust not unseen--in Harvard, Sever, or where you will...
...upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking...
...could not be Lew Friedman because the finger of suspicion points at him too soon; nor will the astute reader mistake Tillman's inscrutability for that of a "squealer." Who wishes to marry Beryl Stedman although, she, while she admires his generous, open nature, cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary...
...Steel Co. It is the tenth largest of the U. S. steel group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...
When the first of the newly-devised "reading periods" at Harvard University are put into effect shortly, to take the place of lectures, recitations, section meetings, and tutorial conferences for a given period, the old saying. "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink," is going to be changed to read, "Will a horse drink if you don't lead him to the trough...