Word: flasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visual memory, one might suppose my taste for the unreal and for drawing-room comedies would be sated. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be found in a far corner of Sever 11 ready to regale myself with Professor Hackett's account of Maximillian's flasco in Mexico. Of all the exotic, unreal, opera bouffe situations this is my favorite...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...
...potentialities, quite as serious as any since the war, for it is in its essence an attack on the policy of isolation. As such, it deserves profound consideration by the administration. Now that Hughes has left the cabinet, the possibilities of a repetition of the Opium Conference flasco are too serious to be overlooked and consequences immeasurably worse would be involved by another admitted failure...
...call attention to the plans for this conference not because Harvard is represented in their formation, but because there is no indication that the Harvard Student Council is having anything to do with them. It is not very long since the flasco of the senior elections demonstrated that student government at Harvard has not yet attained a pinnacle of excellence from which it can afford to look down upon any effort in the direction of better administration of student affairs. The experience of those concerned with alumni activities has shown beyond question that stimulus and suggestion of the highest value...