Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
...Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week...
Dean Roscoe Pound Hon. '20, of the Law School, will speak at the second Smith Halls smoker in the Smith Halls Common Room tonight at 7.15 o'clock, according to C. D. G. Breckeuridge '31, chairman of the dormitory committee...
...special dividend on common stock was declared last week by the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., the first dividend since...
...tacitly understood among the golfing-aviators, would not prevent him from breaking anyone's jaw. But "Berkenmeer was meant for 'officers and gentlemen,' as the phrase ran"; so, acting on an inverse snobbism, Tony kept to himself. The only man with whom Tony had anything in common-they could both walk on their hands-was Harvey Sayles, an educated and war-shocked aviator, who thought out loud because he liked to hear himself think. He was the kind of a man who reads the Apocalypse and Alice in Wonderland in the same afternoon. Most people, including...