Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A. E. French '29, captain of last fall's Crimson team, was not enthusiastic over the change. "It is unquestionably good," he remarked, "in that it will make the game a great deal fairer. Our team last season can recall occasions when an unfortunate fumble changed the whole score. The...
Chatting amiably and informally last week, Prime Minister Raymond Poincare answered a correspondent's pert question: "Mon cher Président* why don't you declare yourself a Dictator? Moi, j'aime les Mussolinis, les Primo de Riveras, les Pil-sudskis!"
General Peter N. Krassnoff, onetime Ataman of the Don Cossacks, now author (Double-Eagle to Red Flag), does not forbear, despite the promise of his publishers, to backslap at Russia's revolutionists.
Jokes. Lawyer Miller mentioned a painter named Garbo, suggested a relationship with Cinemactress Greta Garbo. Sir Joseph failed to understand. When Sir Joseph indicated the contours of the painted bosom Lawyer Miller jocosely murmured: "We will not go below the beads." Lawyer Miller denied perceiving certain innuendoes of color and...
At this point it occurs to me that I have named forty authors and I have but scratched the surface. It is good, I think, to scan this panorama occasionally. It is a tolerably good answer to those who wail about modern literature (and who don't read it). Most...