Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of acts passed by State Legislatures defies statistical powers. Up to 1922, of this innumerable host, 405 have been invalidated by the Court. Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Idaho, Wyoming have never passed an unconstitutional law. Kentucky (aged 132 years), Oklahoma (aged 18), Louisiana (aged 113), New York (aged 136-under the Constitution) have had, respectively, 28, 26, 25, 24 snubs from the Court...
...Shall We Join the Ladies" is a tense, well acted mystery, which gives the audience a taste of real drama. An atmosphere of superstition and terror is created at the outset by the discovery that 13 people are seated about the table. Mr. Clive, taking the role of host, entertains a group that he suspects to have had a hand in the hideous murdering of his brother. He puts them through a horrible evening, yet we know no more at the end than at the beginning. The whole act is merely to produce dramatic effect, and certainly is successful...
Surely this is not asking too much of a University which has always been known as the cultural leader of the country. It is a cause backed by a host of Harvard graduates, who have many times before offered to endow such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...
...hour working day, and Mr. Alger fears that the great surplus of time will be used for aimless amusement instead of self-improvement. The greatest danger to the growth of culture is of course the multiplication of devices for amusement or distraction--the radio, automobiles, professional baseball, and a host of others, all "spectator" amusements. Mr. Alger declares that people have no conception of the obligations as well as the pleasures of leisure, and insist on being amused instead of improved, with the same degenerating effects as those found in slave-owning peoples...
...remains from former buildings have been found. An English penny, dated 1742, the year of the erection of Holden Chapel, was found several days ago by the foreman. Tony, close beside the chapel. A silver spoon of the pre-Revolutionary period was turned up by a spade yesterday. A host of other articles found during the excavating last fall have been retained and catalogued...