Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only partisan Democrats, but many others who are interested in national politics, will flock to the New Lecture Hall between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight and enroll as delegates in the mock convention being held by the Harvard Democratic Club. They will find awaiting them all the thrills of the Madison Square gathering of 1924. In collegiate miniature: speeches which let the eagle scream, parading delegates, contested votes, songs and flags and pictures of famous Democrats. If the convention follows the two models upon which it is based the regular Democratic. Convention and the mock convention held at Harvard...
...room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine of an excellent movie scenario, rivaled as such only by "Her Mother's Jewels" of the same volume...
...dollar bill was discovered tucked away in the pocket of an old tuxedo, and though those in charge have been striving tirelessly to discover the owner and have found any number of candidates, they can find no one able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...
...York will turn out with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason...
...family thinks she is stark, staring "buggy." But she tells her father her secret. He, a kindly babbitt, understands and finally helps Patsy to find the arms of the realtor...