Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post office officials when queried as to the amount of correspondence that passed between Harvard men and Radcliffe students admitted that it would be impossible to ascertain. The possibility of frequent phone calls would naturally make any such figures an uncertain gage of the correspondence passing between the two institutions...
...life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
...unshakable that he agrees to be the nominal husband of a girl whom Mr. Crispin wants to torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American...
...many times that Heywood Broun said it should be given frequent change of title, such as The Ladder of August 24, The Ladder of August 27, 5:30 p. m., after the manner of Scandals of 1924, Follies...
...lest he thereby lose prestige, etc.); he urged the political wisdom of including Republican Root and Taft in the mission; he favored more compromise with Clemenceau, and later the acceptance of the Lodge reservations. But he bowed to the greater man's adamantine will, contented himself with the frequent occasions when his advice was accepted; devoted his energies to the colossal double-headed chimera of a Peace in and by and through a League of Nations...