Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the situation. A memorial issue published immediately after the beginning of the College year would have been possible, but not advisable. Haste could have produced nothing but superficiality. And so the editors determined to organize the Memorial Issue with as great care in the matter of form and content as was possible, and to publish it only when their entire plan could be completed...
...content with the Ibis bird, the Lampoon collected a menagerie for the week-end festivities incidental to their first barn dance. A turkey and a pig, were the guests of honor at the grand affair, thus breaking the ancient traditions, which admitted within the sacred precincts only humans, editors, and the Ibis himself...
...Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political training-for they have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while Chang Tso-lin banquets among his dancing girls. From the cold north of Manchuria and Peking comes the barbaric Mogul to drive back if he can the Cadet who has conquered half China-and last...
...glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage Ethel of recent years, to which an Ethel-drawn audience responds with laughter, palpably content. Percy Hammond: "Miss Barrymore . . . slender, fair, 36 and super-charming...
...cities there is among Negroes a greater percentage of women at work than men. Professor Dowd's chapter on the Negro in Manhattan is one of the best in the book. The colony of some 200,000 Negroes in Harlem seems to be the best regulated and most content in the U. S. Here longshoremen* heave cargoes by day and frolic by night. Says the author: "It is a far cry from the katydids and crickets of the rural South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish...