Word: harking
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These details casually viewed may seem little more than mere routine to a great many members of the class; even the election results may in some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years...
...slightly Pharisaical motive which the author's labors seem to suggest, Tunis shows the same astonishingly naïve curiosity as to why even Harvard men hate President Roosevelt, as was expressed in a recent magazine article by co-operatives expert Marquis W. Childs. Both gentlemen should hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public," "the forces of privilege and greed," and "economic royalists," with which our President demonstrates his yearning for the votes of the proletariat, and cease...
...Divers," and those others which have to do with goings-on in Uncle Sam's fighting forces and whose equipment and scenery are the real McCoy. Many are the aesthetically beautiful and photographically magnificent shots to be found in the film, while certain other scenes and bits of action hark back to the old "thrillers" in their more daringly tense moments, but which, on the other hand, are strictly up to date in their ability to create effects without any stretching of the imagination...
...great Hark Ness hath proclaimed that there can be no distinction, and to this end hath he raised in these sylvan glades great temples with running water and canned provisions...
...great Hark Ness, my people, would have us abolish distinction. Which is a nice idea, don't you think...