Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...
...Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power and pertinacity." He wrote of Oxford's unwholesome, antisocial, velvet-suited, rose-carrying, pseudo-aesthetes, and of the brilliant, insincere, stimulating, dangerous-to-the-guileless-American Oxford conversationalists...
Those who, like the guileless Playgoer, go to "Wang" knowing nothing more about it than its percussive name, will find themselves in the midst of the creditor-dodging adventures of the wily but impecunious Regent of Siam. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that the play contains nothing which will cause patriotic Siamese at Harvard to write indignant letters to the CRIMSON. A delightfully impossible potentate is pursued through two acts by mysterious, impossible emissaries of the King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left...
...professors derive no benefits from the injunction. But these note-sellers, like most note-sellers, entrapped their guileless and indolent prey by guaranteeing an extra 5 percent on the all-decisive law school examination. And misguided students, practically all first-year men, tell for the glittering bait, neglected their regular work, and accordingly failed...
...gentleman "just back from Havana" pays us a visit with his stock of secretly imported "Perfectos"; each year poor, unsophisticated Freshmen tell their tale of woe to unsympathetic upperclassmen who are sadder but wiser from personal experience. A boundless field exists for those who take such pains to favor guileless students with their marvelously discounted wares. Cigars are not the only bargains. Recently we have welcomed the financial agent and his alluring pictures of profitable speculation. Many of us, unfortunately, can testify to his convincing arguments on doubling or trebling the initial...