Word: cellared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor M. O. Hudson '10 of the Law School, formerly a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, will speak on "Back-door, Side-door, Cellar-door, or Front-door?" at the Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, at 3.30 o'clock on Wednesday. Tickets for the lecture, which is for the benefit of the Winsor School Playground, may be obtained for one dollar each from Corliss Lamont '24, 57 Randolph Hall, between 9 and 10, and 3 and 4 o'clock today and tomorrow, and between 9 and 10 o'clock on Wednesday...
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 got into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lord 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...
...asserted that the Administration had " definitely and decisively put aside all thought of the United States entering the League of Nations. It doesn't propose to enter now by the side door, the back door or the cellar door. I have no unseemly comment to offer on the League. It is serving the Old World helpfully; more power to it. ... Excessive friends of the League have beclouded the situation by their unwarranted assumption that it (adherence to the World Court) is a move toward League membership. Let them disabuse their minds. . . . The situation is likewise beclouded by those...
...reading room was enlarged, which relieved the situation for the moment, but the authorities realized that an additional building was necessary. In 1901 Dean Ames reported that the shelves of the library were full, and as a temporary expedient, a building abandoned by the Lawrence Scientific School and the cellar in Walter Hastings Hall were used as storage rooms for the overflow of books...
Since the stage properties of a mystery story are its most important element, this is a first-rate novel of its kind. If not all of the murder properties are used, many of them are, and used effectively. Black-gloved hands, bloody keys, cellar vaults, and shuffling Chinamen are some of the devices. Around these as elements the story is well built, moving rapidly, surely, and with the many intensely gripping situations coming so rapidly on the heels of one another that the reader is sure, if it is possible, to read the book at one sitting...