Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampden, is a good old comedy of plot and action, with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call it, is a favorite device in this...
...rebellion against literary English. This tendency has gone so far that when the novel "Babbitt" was introduced to England it was found necessary to print a glossary of "Americanisms" in the back; and recently a book on "The American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver to British cockney, that the two countries should speak the same language, differing in dialect as little as possible; and with this end in view a committee of scholars...
...putter insists he did so much for Harvard that he should have a preference. And every year there is something in the Alumni Bulletin advocating the adding of new groups to the list--the Endowment Fund men, the families of Harvard boys who died in the war, and a host of other meritorious suggestions, but with all the care and study given by various committees to these suggestion, it is usually agreed to stick to the present plan of allotment...
...tonight, in addition, Brooks House assumes the role of host and toastmaster, welcomes all new members of the University, and introduces to them the various undergraduate activities. Tonight at Brooks House will be an evening well spent...
...were corrected, and the benefits accruing to the government and to the men taking the training were fully as great as even the most optimistic could reasonably expect from four weeks' work. These benefits have been enumerated often; improved physique, training in citizenship, preparation for national defence, and a host of others. Far less often is the public told of the lessons learned by the officers in charge of the training, not from any unwillingness on the part of the officers themselves however...