Word: digression
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...experts will digress somewhat from their chosen fields today in Phillips Brooks House. At 7.45 o'clock the Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of Western New York, will discard the usual subjects of theologians and will speak on another subject in which he is well versed. "An Inside view of the League of Nations" will be his topic. At 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon Professor Theodore Lyman will talk on "Faith and Modern Physical Theory" as the second of the three Science and Religion talks...
...believe," declared Mr. Milhaud in conclusion, "that the music of the future will digress from the conservatism of the past, and the essence of the new element will be jazz...
...outset, continues to revolute. In fact, so busy is it with its revoluting that it has scarcely the time to eat. (This bit of sarcasm will probably be taken over by Lenin for propaganda work, in which case we will promptly claim a fitting reward). But we digress. In fine, the nub of the matter is this: Russian women have taken up smoking as a means wherewith to assuage their hunger. And in the first flush of enthusiasm they have broadcasted the news to an astounded world...
...into details. Anyway, he is just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang, as it has survived the ravages of time for twenty years, and Prof. Dale says it's the correct thing - but I digress. Our proctor, in his endeavors to master the intricacies ("intricacies" is good) of this new freak of nature - I mean the dance, not the proctor, - jumps over tables, climbs the curtains, fastens himself to the chandelier, knocks down the book-case, and all this time is trying to play an accompaniment on a flute...
...permission to open the college locker and obtain a fresh supply of linen. The president then embraced the youth, and his wife the maid. In passing we would suggest that it would have been better if he had embraced his wife and had let the youth embr - but we digress. The result of the meeting was satisfactory, and the trembling pair folded up their clothes like the Arabs, and as silently stole away...