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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Butler sums it all up under an old formula: "Both school and college have in large part taken their minds off the true business of education, which is to prepare you to live, and have fixed them upon something which is very subordinate, namely, how to prepare you to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/1/1920 | See Source »

The Cercle is most fortunate in its having discovered such remarkable dramatic ability and mastery of French among the girls of Boston Society. Those who saw "Lire" in 1918 will remember how well Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird Jr. executed the leading feminine role. This year she has the title role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESENTATION OF "FANNY LEAR" SCORES TREMENDOUS HIT | 11/27/1920 | See Source »

Aside from all contentions as to the right or wrong of the Sinn Fein movement and "free Ireland", the group of Irish sympathisers who attacked the New York Union Club, demanding that the British flag which was flying in celebration of the Pilgrim Tercentenary, be furled, made a grave mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNION JACK. | 11/27/1920 | See Source »

In the collection named "Master Eustace," the substance which James presents is of his customary order, rather ethereal, rather, even, anaemic, Each story affords an excellent cuttlebone for the sensibility of the reader, and rests with that service alone. Stimulating the appetite of the reader for solid substance, he can...

Author: By S. F. J., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF --- REVIEWS --- JOTS AND TITLES | 11/20/1920 | See Source »

For a long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/17/1920 | See Source »

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