Word: flee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Lilly Penny--LilyBecker Penny--brought up in the close moral confines imposed by a rightous mother who believed in telling her daughter nothing about anything except the virtues of a "settled married life". So Lilly marries, but after three weeks of marriage, she revolts to flee to New York, where she tries to be herself; whe obtains a heraing for her voice from the great Auchinloss, but it is not a great voice. Who knows but that sufficient freedom given her in her earlier year might not have allowed it to develop? At any rate, Lilly decides that...
...written rule that the wicked flee when no man pursueth, and however limited or absolute that truth may be, it suggests another, to the effect that trusting to human nature when there are no patrolmen does not pay in our stage of civilization. So in regard for such an axiom the New Jersey Legislature after 12 years of agitation has passed a bill establishing a state constabulary. Such a bill provides for a state police force of two troops of 65 men each, the officers to be men who have served in the United States army with at least...
...Radcliffe Choral Society will join the Glee Club and the Boston Symphony in presenting the program. There will be seventy girls from the Choral Society and twelve men from the Flee Club behind the scenes under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06; they will carry out the music which the pages are expected to sing. On the stage proper will be eighty members of the Glee Club who together with the Orchestra will be under the Personal supervision of Mr. Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony...
...determining the choice of college for those lads. Such interest is created by the club's depicting the older musical side of college life. It is not to be denied that such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary schoolboy to flee in utter boredom. Moreover, even his sister might not be intrigued by such a serious program, unless her musical up-bringing had been of the best. However, in the case of Princeton the Triangle Club with its many tours has long been carrying the message of Princeton musically, just...
...work of the University Glee Club; but, in addition to his praise, there is a note of doubt in regard to the success of the club from a "utilitarian" aspect. "Such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary school boy to flee in utter boredom," he says. In this way, an intellectual victory may become a practical defeat in turning away from the University desirable students. The secondary purpose of a Glee Club Tour,--the furthering of the interests of the University in territories where it is little known,--would become a loss...