Word: cellared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President stated that the Administration " had definitely and decisively put aside all thought of entering the League of Nations. It doesn't propose to enter now by the side door, the back door or the cellar door. . . . the Senate has so declared, the Executive has so declared and the people themselves have so declared...
...values and that the spirit of international conferences may be quickened." Such was the opening thought expressed by Professor M. O. Hudson '10 of the University Law School when he addressed a small group in Longfellow House yesterday afternoon on the League, the subject being "Back-door, Side-door, Cellar-door, or Front-door...
...Back-door, Side-door, Cellar-door, or Front-door" will be the subject of Professor Manley O. Hudson '10 of the University Law School, when he speaks this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street. Professor Hudson's qualifications for talking on the League of Nations are many during the war he was affiliated with the State Department; he was a member of the American committee to negotiate peace in 1918 and later at the Peace Conference in 1919; he appeared at the International Labor Conference in Washington the same year, and at the Genoa Conference...
...play, the Luka. In true American style he was made a sentimental figure, who fight have strayed in from a stained glass window. And the play was largely played in enveloping darkness. The Yiddish Art Theatre agreed with the Hopkins production in keeping the third act in the cellar, but there were other noticeable differences. The Nastya was not so good, and the Luka, played by Maurice Schwartz, was conceived as more of a burlesque figure than one who oddly mixes the religious and the practical, the human, and the saint. In both of these performances the handling...
Foreigners are especially open to these dangers. One cannot blame the Italian who chose "cellar-door" as the most melodious word in our language; Tennyson's choice for the same distinction unfortunately is not admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to get into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lore Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!"--and he found it difficult to understand...