Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberty's voice rattles as so many peas in an empty pod in this week's consideration of "Princeton On Roller Skates" The time-worn arguments that: "The faculties of colleges and universities are charged with developing boys into men. Men nowadays drive cars. Students should learn to handle cars. That is a vital part of the education of the modern man and woman," are used to little avail and nothing new or of interest is given. True, the editorial will appeal to the emotions of many people dissatisfied with the present situation at the universities and colleges where...
...delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even...
Should the Associated Press elect to release an account, colorful or otherwise of the life and works of Editor Mencken, it could draw him to the attention of scores of millions of people. Therein lies its responsibility, a full sense of which Editor Mencken was moved to drive home. The American Mercury's account of the life and works of the Associated Press, on the other hand, reached only some 75,000 persons. These would be a great many if they really represented the "civilized minority" to which the magazine addressed itself at its founding three years...
...exclaimed: "Money! The more I see of it, the less I like it. . . . Maybe I intend to take a wife." A few months later his reaction was: "I'm going to buy the biggest and best looking motor car that money will buy and drive it at whatever speed I choose right through the main street of Onawa...
...bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes, who is a professor of Columbia University and the author of a Pulitzer prize play, Hell Bent fer Heaven; 2) The cast acted, directed, produced the piece, after...