Word: faintings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly is full of talk of Ben Jonson and Coffee House, of the Cock Horse and The Merle, of the inaccessibility of professors and the limitations of the 47 Workshop; casual varied and good-humored talk that exhales a faint eighteenth century aroma and is mildly entertaining. Its anonymity is qualified by the cautious statement that "the names of the editors will be given to anyone in authority on written application." Whether this refers to the Postmaster General or the Dean's office is not clear, but neither of them need be disturbed by "The Aristocrat," to judge from...
Damning with faint praise all college magazines and the Advocate in particular, Mr. Allen's letter reiterates his review; and asks for articles about football or essays that shall relate the college class-room and literature. He indicates that some people are too prone to think of compositions about Shelley as being necessarily superior to writings about football. That many of us incline to this belief is thoroughly true. We bolster our supposition with the perspective of memory which asserts that pages about Shelley are indeed more likely to be well lettered and less subject to mortality than quartos about...
...made the consulting architect. When he realized that he was not deceived in his suspicion that he was being studiously ignored, he also resigned. His successor, like the apprentice of Michael Scott, the magician of the ironic legend, made a pathetic fiasco relieved only by faint reminiscences of the original design...
...form the political field if his party suffered defeat undoubtedly brought him a great number of votes, the people being in no hurry to lose a capable premier. There have even been whispers of a Republic with Venezelos as its first head but as yet these whispers are too faint to be formulated into any sort of statement or policy...
...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...