Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cackle, cackle--Exit joke...
...other colleges, as for example the Princeton Triangle Club which more than once has inserted the sacred name in a line of its musical comedy and arranged that, as the line was read, several tatterdemalion vagrants in the audience should stumble to their feet and make for an exit...
President Frank says in his opening paragraphs that "we are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings of a student revolt against the sterilities of current academic procedure." And he sees no happy exit from the enigma in further curricular jugglings. Bringing pragmatism into education, he would replace as much of the historical survey work of general fields as is now given by courses which would deal more with situations than with subjects. To understand how a nation or civilization met situations similar to those which now face the citizen of the modern...
...other concerts. Some of the players seem merely indifferent, but several are definitely tired; the trombone puts his instrument in a case and walks out, the second cellos follow his example; now no one is left but Mr. Stokowski and two violins. One of the violins makes a surreptitious exit, playing as he goes. The other retires with a gracious...
Well pleased at this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home, the harassed Viscountess was "deluged with letters...