Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
...further experiment proposing to increase the intellectual freedom of college students is announced in the new Senior Fellowships of Dartmouth College. Under the Fellowship plan a group of five carefully selected Juniors will be given an absolute academic free hand during their last year in residence. Collecting no tuition, the college will make no additional requirement for degree beyond the work completed before the Senior year. It is hoped that the personal freedom thus given will act as an intellectual stimulus to men whose undergraduate records promise distinguished scholastic leadership...
...story is as simple as life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others...
Childishly simple in conception, couched in free verse, the libretto wallows in German sentimental-realism. Fog, snow, the hum of the motor, the ships at sea are all personified. The hero sings...
...What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when, after Stand ard had given away kerosene lamps throughout China, in order that the heathen might learn the advantages of kerosene lighting, he had stepped in and irreverently undersold Standard, thus filing free U. S. lamps with cheap Royal Dutch kerosene. Well, the old Standard was broken up now ? its pieces, in fact, were all around him: Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee...