Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images could be forgotten as it caught and reflected her own glory. They came again to hear other singers sing better...
...every man's consumption of pleasurable goods. His own two major quotas, he specified, were 36,000 bottles of wine and 150,000 strong cigars. Statisticians do not know how many inhabitants of the U. S. consumed the 97,176,607,484 cigarets manufactured in 1927. Women have come to swell the legion, and for the first time in history the 1927 advertising budgets contained provisions for direct appeals to them. (Marlboro cigarets pushed the first overt advertising campaign for women smokers.) Production of cigarets last year was more than double that of 1920 and six times as great...
...subject of the total abolition of submarines Commander Ellsberg remarked, "Submarines will be prohibited as soon as all warfare is abolished. Submarines have practically no use at all except as weapons of war, and I hope that the time will come when all weapons of war are done away with." The Commander said a few words concerning the financial practicality of salvaging sunken submarines: "A ship such as the S-51 costs in the neighborhood of three million dollars to construct; the cost for salvaging, allowing four-hundred thousand dollars for the reconditioning of the craft, is enough below this...
Those opposing any radical enlargement of the Stadium contend that it would put Harvard football on a professional basis--people would not come to see Harvard play, but to see football played, and with this change in purpose would come all the other disadvantages of professional athletics; that to pay for the Stadium would make this general invitation to the public necessary at all but the Yale game; that this marks a definite shift from "athletics-for-all" to "a chance to see athletics-for-all"--that Harvard needs a golf course and other equipment for active use more than...
Whether one likes it or not, there seems to be no gainsaying the fact that Harvard depends for her existence and development upon the support of her graduates, both those of the College and those of the professional schools, come impossible, to give these men two seats for the Yale game. Perhaps they With a Stadium seating less than 80,000 it is now impossible or will soon be-are unreasonable, perhaps they should forego their desires for the sake of saving a beautiful structure and for the sake of rendering football at Harvard wholly beyond the reach of even...