Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course we cannot hide our heads in the sand like that and expect to escape the imminent thunderstorm. Things are, unfortunately, happening in the world outside, and before we know it college students may begin to take a most indecorous interest in them--as perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid...
...fair for a critic to hide behind his own generalizations. The morning friendliness of Mr. Hooker's' establishment is deducible from his cordiality, the basking Purple Pig and even an old grandfather clock. But how much better would it be, not to call the grandfather clock--as old and worn as its face appears "inaccurate"! Not content with stopping here the writer further impairs his picture by insisting on deducing friendliness from "the touching picture of a dying fox surrounded by stiff-looking hounds." One may find pathos in the scene and an engendered sympathy for the fox within himself...
...what to do. We might listen to him. But alas! He has not tongue of his own; only a few words and phrases which he has picked up through contact with his betters. Addison may pass disguised as a horney handed son of toil but a coal-heavier cannot hide himself under all the wigs and satin breaches in the world. There, then stands our literacy he be; with the shirt of prince and the overalls of mechanic; with the vocabulary of scholar and the ideas of a peasant...
...always lacking. Long and hot would be the resulting arguments; the scoffers declaring that the supposed monster was only an unusually large whale a school of dolphins, or a mass of drifting kelp. But the believers shook their heads, asserting that no one could tell what the sea might hide...
...they again break into the easy flow of Lampy's pages, effectively blocking all but the persistent, in location of a final page of mirth cheered by two excellent drawings. Make-up makes or breaks a woman, depending upon a man's taste, and Lampy cannot afford to hide its charm behind an impenetrable wall of adds...