Word: fades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of 1927 in 1924, red, yellow, and green lanterns, music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture at the same time the Memorial Scholarship award was discontinued. A new era dawned for the Jubilee. It became a dance, no more
...threaten serenity in Reading Period hibernation. "Sunshine starvation" is the latest excuse to while away long hours over seductive literature on "coral islands", "bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround the acquisition of sunburn without the inconvenience...
...somewhat commonplace conversation which took place, between the spectres and the condemned woman, even the gratuitous insult to the memory of the dead actor, fade into insignificance compared to the manner in which the tale is told. Here is the printing press used not for the dissemination of knowledge but for the spreading of blind terror and superstitions resorting not to mere vulgarity but taking a malicious advantage of ignorance and credulity. For one assumes that these editors are acquainted with their public, and have no intention of making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their readers. If this assumption...
...Spanish-Indian extraction. There is a legend about one of these Gauchos who became an outlaw and galloped through the mountains at the head of a reckless ragged army. Eventually, this legend came to the ears of Douglas Fairbanks. The inevitable occurred. First scenarios, then sets, extras, cameras, fade-outs, cuttings, retakes. By this time the Gaucho was no longer a legend; he had turned into a very real little man, smoking cigarets incessantly, leaping gymnastically from banister to balustrade, smiling gaily and with buoyant naivete...
...merely opportunity for agreement. Technically Harvard is nothing more that an institution of learning. It never bas been more, nor does it ever wish to be. And if the members and alumni of the University are content with this restricted aim, all commentaries, either complimentary or double edged, fade into a deeper twilight than the twilight of the gods...