Word: doors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs...
...greatest inspirational preacher in England today. It was a Congregational paper (Barnes is, of course, Anglican?equivalent of Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.) which declared that since Dr. John H. Jowett died (TIME, Dec. 31), no preacher has been able to create a queue outside a church-door in London except Canon Barnes...
...gone by, or was it the original penpetrator of the daily seven o'clock fantasia in Harvard Hall? Possibly Ben was the parent of all modern book agents whose bickering approach was heralded long enough to allow the artist to draw the picture and the message on his locked door. Had the writing been of a blue tint, Ben might well have been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering from a suppressed blue desire, taking steps...
When the men working on Massachusetts Hall tore the outer boards off the framework of the door on the north side, a small pencil sketch of a gentleman dressed in colonial clothes was seen among the other ancient scrawls. Above the drawing was the inscription. "Bedamn, Ben", Archacologists of the University are puzzled regarding the exact meaning of "Bedamn", but as the picture portrays a somewhat portly gentleman, they deduce that "Ben" probably refers to Benjamin Franklin, and that the drawing was a tribute to him by one of his more ardent admirers...
Humerists at Harvard may prove their absurd ability when the Lampoon opens its competitions for the literary and business departments of its board this evening. Candidates will assemble at the Lampoon Building today at 7 o'clock, entering by the sacred side door. At this meeting explanation of the work will be given together with details of the competitions...