Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need snap courses. Good students take them in order to have time to concentrate on other subjects that happen to interest them more--and that in itself justifies them, if ever they needed justification; poor students take them because they are easy, and not infrequently interesting; and why not? As long as one hundred and twenty-four points are required for a sheepskin, as long as the time of both kinds of students is so completely taken up, just so long will snap courses fill a defendable want in the curricular mart...
...statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
...They say the Negro is lazy and yet when a white man does happen to work he says, 'I worked like a nigger...
Heywood Campbell Broun wrote in his column for the New York World: "For ages I had been curious to know what would happen if the nose of a great editor were shattered. I find that it bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
Special Delivery. Eddie Cantor's art is a matter of sustaining punches in the eye, somersaults down elevator shafts, kicks, with perfectly immobile countenance. All this he does and little more in the course of a series of gags illustrating what can happen to a sublimely stupid letter carrier whose flashes of shrewdness are funny when unexpected...