Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...
There is no doubt but that a Ritz is an asset to any city. What confidence is necessary to be able nonchalantly to arrange a luncheon--at the Ritz;--it takes confidence--and much more than confidence. Even the eminently respectable and rehabilitated Parker House and the Victorian solidity of the Touraine yield to the superior glorifications of the Ritz. The ultimate goal of the aspiring undergraduate now changes from being able to chat familiarly with the Copley doorman to possessing sufficient boldness to call the Ritz headwaiter by his first name...
...sauntered slowly over to morning chapel he was still in an agony of doubt. Solomon was a bigger man than he. He had been on the Lampoon, and had been the beau ideal of Radcliffe for four years, called the waiters in the Sahara by the first names, had been in the first fifteen in the Dramatic Club...
...football proposals referred to it by President Hopkins last winter is surprising both in the clear and concise manner of its statement and the general favor which it accords to the primary aims of the Dartmouth head. True it disagrees outright with one suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously and harmfully affect the basic educational purposes of the colleges...
...having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud guffaw. Continuing a worthy partnership, Gluyas Williams has embellished a considerable number of the pages with his delightful drawings, and as an added attraction there are no small number of opera from the hand of the variously-appreciated John...