Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only avowed object is to work up the drab news of a training camp in good rollcking fashion, evidently in the hope that the hearty laugher it induces, will strengthen the stomach muscles of the oarsmen...
...Even the Radicals have said: "Better the Directory than a Romanones Ministry." * Moroccan Foot. In the pristine pride of its advent to power, the Directory was firmly convinced that it could batter the turbulent Riffs into submission. Consequently, it handled the statesmen and politicians in cavalier fashion, refusing haughtily all offers of help. "We shall meet again in Morocco," was the grim retort of ex-Premier Count Romanones, the Liberal leader. Subsequent events thoroughly disillusioned General Rivera and his colleagues. The Riffs proved stronger than was supposed; but General Rivera is at least an able soldier and his strategy...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
...hundred years ago the 200 odd students of Harvard College were completing the academic year 1824-25, and being examined, in the peculiar fashion of the time, in the 16 courses that were open then to undergraduates. Today, there begins a 14-day examination period in which nearly 4000 students in the University will take examinations in the 325 courses that are offered this year by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The contrast illustrates the transformation that Harvard has undergone in the third century of her existence...
...Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed no theorizing, merely read from her poetical works and acted a play with three characters, by herself. Hatcher Hughes, a Columbia professor whose youthful mien belied his pedagogical calling, conquered a certain diffidence and told how he came to fashion the lives of Kentucky mountaineers into Hell-Bent for Heaven, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose...