Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...
...those locks of hair?" he said. "Well, it is a long story but I can tell it in a few words. I bet a fellow-Westminster College student $100 that I could take 50 girls buggy-riding on 50 successive days without taking the same girl twice, and get a lock of hair from each. I not only won the bet, but found the quest for locks such a pleasant one that I did not stop until I had the hundred...
...Lardner has not shirked a single chance to rid himself of the reputation for "depth" which jealous fellow-writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...
...knows better whereof he speaks than Mr. Allen. He has sailed and, he intimates, he has suffered. But one might have foreseen the difficulties which were to beset him and his fellow mentors on the Ryndam. In the first place a floating college is an innovation in education and as such it demanded the must careful regulation. It would not have been entirely pessimistic if, for this initial venture, the prime movers of the project had limited themselves and had sacrificed the more elusive attempt of bringing men and women together on such a oruise to the welfare...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...