Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures are based upon present populations. Sir Frederick finds that the belligerent nations in the War recruited one fifth of their population for the armies...
...Story. If you marry into Fifth Avenue society at 21, bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist...
...CRAZY FOOL-Donald Ogden Stewart-A & C. Boni ($2.00). Since amused friends told Mr. Stewart he was a scream and should set up in the funny business, which he did with The Parody Outline of History (1921), this is his fifth booby book. It concerns Charlie Hatch, who inherited his uncle's insane asylum, organized it with conferences, buzzers and several Department Heads, "made good," won Banker Pratt's ravishing daughter and died a noble death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family...
...Ingraham '25, captain of the University tennis team, won his way to the fifth round of the Massachusetts State tournament yesterday by defeating W. I. Badger Jr. L. '16 in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. The only other members of the Crimson in the tournament was eliminated yesterday when Alden Briggs '25, after winning from T. O. Kingsbury 6-3, 6-2 in his second round match, bowed to R. A. Bidwell '99 in a close battle...
Members of the class of 1900, back to Cambridge for their twenty-fifth reunion, face a crowded program today and tomorrow. This morning members and their families will travel to the Dedham Country Club for a field day. This afternoon they will march to the Class Day exercises in the Stadium, and this evening they will gather for the Class Day Spread at the Union...