Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage decorated with the seal of the U. S. and two small American flags. They saw no one there; the President's box was quite empty. But a few keen-eyed watchers detected a familiar figure in one of the smaller boxes in the horseshoe in the front of the gallery. There sat Dr. and Mrs. Spence, who had been guests at the White House for several days, and with them was a slender woman in a plain black suit, with a black velvet hat, grey fox collar...
...equivalent for "Thank heaven that's over!" and prepare to expostulate personally with the archaeologists who have been disturbing his rest for two years. There has been singularly little excitement at the news that he is finally to see the light of day. When his tomb was first discovered, front page stories ran riot. Feminine accessories at once took on an Egyptian character which might have made an ancient Egyptian ill but was good enough to satisfy the public. Vaudeville actors and professional funny men took as many liberties with "King Tut" as they ever did with prohibition...
...news of his forthcoming, formal entrance into society is taken very calmly. After looking in vain all over the front page, the royal clipping bureau has to content itself with a brief notice culled from among the news of debutante dances and stock reports. Unacquainted with modern psychology, this hopelessly old-fashioned Pharaoh bungled his entrance. His fame preceded his person and died so long ago that it is now even more ancient than himself. It is too bad they did not have expert publicity agents in old Egypt...
...fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into the regiment that was going to the front, amidst privation, wounds and death; that youth desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life is worth while. I referred to a committee which in 1903 found respect for intellectual attainment...
...University band will form in front of Widener at 3 o'clock today, and will march through the Yard and the dormitory district on its way to the Stadium. While in the Stadium, the students will witness the final University signal drill...