Word: cod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday evening, April 6, Joseph C. Lincoln, famous American novelist and short-story writer, will speak at the Union on the fiction of the present day. Mr. Lincoln is the author of numerous stories of American life, chief among which will be remembered "Cape Cod Stories", "The Postmaster," "The Woman Haters" and "Shavings...
Keen insight and an abundant humor have made Mr. Lincoln's characterizations of Cape Cod Sea Captains and fishermen, in his Cape Cod Stories, particularly delightful, and it is of these people that he will speak more particularly in his discussion of modern American fiction, Since Mr. Lincoln has devoted a great deal of time to the study of these "Cape Condition," as they have wittily been referred to, he is acquainted with them and their way of living as few have been, therefore he is particularly well qualified to portray their humorous side. He has also been for several...
Harvard is a New England college, which, while it draws its students form all over the world and has Wall Street bankers among its overseers, is still essentially dominated by New England influence. The jokes about the Adamses, the Lowells and the Cabots, the cod fishball and the bean are not for nothing. A Boston man is, or anyhow always used to be, different form a Kentuckian. One star differs from another in glory: Balfour and Lloyd George, Charles Elliott Norton from Mark Twain...
Harvard is a New England college, which, while it draws its students form all over the world and has Wall Street bankers among its overseers, is still essentially dominated by New England influence. The jokes about the Adamses, the Lowells and the Cabots, the cod fishball and the bean are not for nothing. A Boston man is, or anyhow always used to be, different form a Kentuckian. One star differs from another in glory: Balfour and Lloyd George, Charles Elliott Norton from Mark Twain...
...term of enlstment is three years, but for good reason a man can resign whenever he wishes. The duties of a member consist of attending drill every Thursday evening during the winter, and going to a summer camp, probably on Cape Cod, for two weeks during the summer. In addition a member must serve with the battery in time of emergency, but this is extremely rare, for artillery can only be used in extraordinary cases, such as the Mexican trouble...