Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous, satirical weekly" in its favor, coming to this decision upon reading your delectable excerpts from Harold Bell Wright's latest classic...
...great figures were, however, conspicuous by their absence. One, Elihu Root, whose speeches to the Association a decade and two decades ago are now classic, has passed through the portals of many years into a remote seclusion. One, the Chief Justice of the U. S., William Howard Taft, grandfather of ten, pride of his profession, remains vacationing in preparation for an arduous fall, winter, spring at his public post...
...benefit of the throngs of alumni and undergraduates who are planning to attend the New London classic between the oarsmen of Harvard and Yale on Friday the New Haven Railroad announced today that a special train, consisting of parlor cars, a dining car, and coaches will be operated from Boston to New London on that date...
...popular diversions, the Players' Club gathers unto itself an extraordinary group of notables and has a revival. There is something about these ceremonies that causes true devotees of the Theatre to hesitate, possibly to worship a little. To see John Drew upon the stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind...
Norton, Deacon, and Comins of Yale should clean up in the broad jump. Norton became Intercollegiate champion this year in place of his teammate, Comins, who won the classic a year ago. All three can leap at least 23 feet...