Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I was looking for some evidence that I was remembered by those far from the folds of learning and was hunting some mail I came upon the only thing which I dread worse than a bill--a card from my tutor. So I had to chase up to the pleasant-scented, airy, and roomy bulk called Holyoke House and visit "my friend and my severest critic." Needless to say he was surprised and delighted to see me, even offered me a cigarette which I refused, remembering to fear the Greeks even bearing gifts, as Shakespeare said. At once...
...postal cards were evidently sent out in an effort to discredit a statement in an editorial appearing in Wednesday morning's CRIMSON. On the return postal card were printed a statement by a New York sports writer to the effect that Harvard would willingly trade President Lowell, President Eliot and an assortment of department heads for a good running backfield, and a quotation from the CRIMSON's editorial refuting the charge. The recipient of each postal card was asked to check his opinion on each quotation "in the interest of statistics," and return the card...
...dramatic pigeonhole. The prologue, which is weird melodrama, takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes...
...ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse, and above the seal of the society should be placed a membership card...
...Dunworth opened his program, which he calls "Spiritism, an Instructive and Educational Expose," with a series of clever card tricks which he accompanied with the customary rapid fire conversation for the "mis-direction of the attention," so essential to observers of magic. All of the tricks were explained and the superiority of the hand over the eye was again demonstrated...