Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...complete change has come over London since we sat down to dinner. The streets are seething with men in masks and princesses with daggers in their stockings...
Latest ukase of Signor Augusto Turati, Secretary General of the Fascist party: ''Young and even little Italian girls should by their costumes give the impression of the severity of the Fascist education which has been imparted to them-their skirts should come to at least two fingers' lengths below their knees...
This purely practical reason has prompted Harvard to remain apart from athletic leagues among the colleges. There may be, it is true, some danger that the necessary activities of the governing body of any such league might come into disturbing contact with the policy of a single college. Where the intra-university program is especially extensive, as at Harvard, the obligation of conforming to the rules of an external organization might be an unfortunate...
Before the advent of this new time the Dining Halls were subject to a "rush" just before the end of the hours for serving--at each meal. A certain class of fellows consistently come in the Halls at the last possible moment. Were the evening meal served from 6.00 to 10.30 there would be a large number come in at 10.29. On every holiday, Sunday, or any day on which the time is extended for serving, there is always this joyful rush at the last minute...