Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice in a footnote on page 60 of your issue of Nov. 12 an interesting remark of Wm. Lyon Phelps' about Father Riggs. In view of Prof. Phelps' observation that "he has done both" (i.e., written musical comedy and joined the Catholic clergy), you will be interested to know that Father Riggs' two most recent literary ventures are a highly theological translation from the French just published by Macmillan-and a translation of Rostand's "The Last Night of Don Juan." The translation of Rostand, as yet unpublished, is as beautiful, subtle and polished...
...walking a beat in Omaha 20 years ago and reached his present eminence last July, is something new in police chiefs. He does not believe in violence. He is supposed to have used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves, in our relations with the public, that we shall be regarded as public servants who know the rules of courtesy as well as the means of capturing a criminal." The "third degree" (arm-twisting...
...There," he said, "you young devil, that will teach you to steal potatoes from the army and sell them to dirty food speculators. You have the red head of an imp from hell and the black heart of a capitalist. We have done with...
Celebrating the first five years of publication of The American Mercury, Editor H. L. Mencken pointed out editorially in the December number what a bright, good, competent job has been done; how happy all the intelligent readers of the magazine are (all of them being intelligent); how tirelessly he will strive to make the Mercury brighter and bigger and better...
...entering Harvard from public schools have done better work scholastically than those entering from private schools or tutoring schools it is shown by a survey of the records made by the present Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes during their first year. Men entering the College from public schools, though approximately in the same numbers as those entering from private preparatory schools, have been more successful in making the Dean's List, and in presenting fewer unsatisfactory records. The poorest records were made by men entering from tutoring schools...