Word: cues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the fair heroine is sobbing with all the lachrymose exertions that lie within her dramatic command, when the aged squire is struck dead from behind with an axe, or when, at the w. k. psychological moment, a wailing babe is introduced as evidence, then the audience takes its cue to shake with laughter. Sometimes its amusement is short-lived, barely rippling over the house in a trickle of chuckles; sometimes it is frankly ever-powering, vented by hearty guffaws or gurgles; but always it is indicated in one form or another...
...Weaver's treatment of Liberalism is most unconvincing. The philosophy of Liberalism is essentially that of compromise. The Liberal is prepared to go further than the Conservative, but not so far as the Radical. In effect, he takes his cue from the two extremes, moderates their programs and emerges with a policy slower and steadier than that of the one, yet more advanced and progressive than that of the other...
Student life was both Spartan and Puritan in the early days of Massachusetts Hall. The students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud...