Word: faintings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those peripheral penmen whose noses are keen for "human interest", are finding the scent at Cleveland faint and cold. Kirby, cartoonist for the World, has vented his disappointment by picturing the typical defegate masquerading in mid-winter regalia and shivering against a background of icebergs, snow and aurora borealis...
...hardships is an almost incredible one, from an American point of view. That any one should possess such an unquenchable thirst for knowledge seems strange; that an entire student body should possess it is more than remarkable. Occasionally, it is true, seniors on the verge of graduation feel a faint and indefinable sensation of regret that there are still some few fields of human knowledge into which they have not delved; and quite often, this develops into undoubted industry in the graduate schools. But in general, the American learns what he is taught--if he is taught well enough...
...subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...
...known yet whether this object is a comet, but it is in the constellation Aires, close to the Ecliplic. It is too faint to be seen with anything but a large telescope...
...literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh, and faint memories of Francis Thompson and Swinburne...