Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains to be seen whether. Yale can do away with the very definite social disadvantages which President Angell cites in his address and can maintain its traditional educational standards, at the same time adding impetus to personal intellectual progress. Always conservative and with an eye to the college as a unit. Yale is in a position to conduct an experiment all the more significant be cause of the trend of the times in presenting problems which have to be met in an entirely original manner...
President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan peered patiently at the caged mouse in his living room. It rummaged among the shavings for tidbits. It reared and looked Dr. Little in the eye. But it did not sing for him, as Professor Lee R. Dice had said it could. Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the Mendelian stock...
...Mlle. Simone Roseray, who performed adequately enough, in a Manhattan night club. The press-agent for this night club, one Irving Strouse, cudgeled his wits to think of some smart dodge whereby he could place Mlle. Roseray and the club in which she performed, more conspicuously before the public eye than either had ever been before. With elaborate cunning, he constructed his plan. Mlle. Roseray would go into Central Park and give an imitation of a woman trying, not very hard, to commit suicide; she would be rescued by sensation seekers who, with shouts and squealings, might decoy...
...while dog-owners led their charges, with some embarrassment, into "exercise" enclosures differentiated with an eye to sexual segregation, the judging continued. Then, on the last night of the show, the great spectacle began. Five judges came to judge five dogs. Each dog had been adjudged the best in each of five groups-sporting, working, terrier, toy, and non-sporting. One of the five, the judges would select as the best dog in the whole show...
...dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner, this individual crept to the box wherein Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily...