Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since the Princeton debacle and the fact twitting comparison of a Boston debutante dance to the auction block, the arrival of a new issue of the Lampoon has been awaited nervously by an those who live in glass houses. People cannot seem to stand having fun poked at them. And now there's more bits of intra-mural irreverence in the January number which cannot but cause offense to members of the Harvard faculty...
Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
...artistically inclined there is perhaps no greater pleasure than that to be gained in the comparison of the works of two artists who have set out to solve more or less the same problem by the use of different mediums. There is at present an excellent opportunity to do just this...
Between the works of these two men, in their very spirit as well as in their vehicle of expression, there are vast differences. You it is just these differences when seen works treating the same subject, that create the interest in their comparison...
...reference to "all others" invites comparison with the paragraphs of Robert Quillen. When Mr. Quillen wrote for the Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont, he led all other papers in the number of paragraphs quoted, his high mark being...