Word: founts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other newly confirmed Commissioners are Sam Pickard (Kansas), Harold A. La Fount (Utah), Ira E. Robinson (West Virginia). E. O. Sykes (Tennessee) was sole member and acting chairman of the Commission while Congress debated its continued existence last month...
...convulsive thought has gone into the initial number of this quarterly, the presence of which is being bruited about in the better bookshops from Brattle Street to Willoughby Street in London. One cannot dismiss it as another transitory emulation of the Parisian expatriates, although that group is the indubitable fount of its inspiration. Certainly it is not a periodical for the layman; rather is it one of the arts and for artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting pamphlet. It may or may not sustain...
...other people's welfare is a forced thing at Harvard and the years of plenty will be followed by a long lean term, advice is obtained only for the asking. Secondly, because the soundest, most reasonable, and most qualified advice is yet in store for the Freshmen and its fount, the Student Advisors...
...bards have no singing in them whatsoever. Perhaps it is more justly put to say that while their contents are rich enough, their throats are seasonably hoarse. I venture, however, that the keen ear of Dean Briggs himself would find pleasure in "He came upon a sunbeam to the fount, Unrippled mirror of that winged romance...
...balmy air of far Cathay. When I say the balmy air of far Cathay, I am not certain that balmy elements have not found representation in both cases. Cook is an orator, Chen is a literary man. Both, curiously enough, seem to draw inspiration from the same fount...