Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private performance, witnessed by Minister of Education Lunarchasky, who is in charge of theatres, it was considered that the play was "quite unworthy of the fuss made over it." "Which," said the theatre manager, on whose stage the play is to be reproduced, with delicate cynicism, "won't hurt the box office receipts, however." M. Lunarcharsky decided not to place a ban on the play...
...chosen as Senate whip. The progressives?La Follette, Brookhart, Norris, Ladd and Frazier, were not present. The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not attend, as they had contemplated doing, for fear such action might be misinterpreted in Minnesota. In half an hour, with small fuss, the conference was over...
...Root-Takahira Treaty between the U. S. aud Japan was renewed. According to announcement from the State Department, Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hanihara sat down and signed the renewal agreement with small fuss at Washington. This Treaty, which provides for arbitration in case of a dispute between the two countries, was originally consummated in 1908, to hold for five years It had already been extended twice for the same period, in 1913 (when Mr. Bryan was Sec- retary of State) and 1918 (Lansing). So the present renewal did not cause much comment. But there was a new provision added...
Five Seniors have been elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa: Horace Bancroft Davis of Brookline; Samuel Leo Fuss of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from the University of Pittsburgh; Julian Lawrence Holley of Bristol, Connecticut, a transfer student from Williams College; Charles Hartshorne of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from Haverford College; and Fulmer Franklin Mood of Oakland, California. Only five more members of this class will be taken into the Phi Beta Kappa. These will be elected at the time of the Final Examinations on special consideration for honorary degrees...
Such is the monstrous fate which overhangs the hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony...