Word: hostings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patrons of American theatres have seldom been cursed with the plague of usher-tipping; that particular institution, very fortunately, is wholly French. But there are barbers in America, and hat-check girls, and boot-blacks, and waiters, and a whole host of black-eyed banditti whose entire stock in trade is a hypnotic countenance and an irritated palm. If Mr. Van Dyke can only find the opportunity and the strength of character to extend his magnificent principle to take in all these special cases, his claim to the everlasting gratitude of the down-trodden bourgeois will be assured...
...romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
Taken as a whole, the idea is one which staggers the imagination both by its simplicity and by its brilliant possibilities. But like most sudden visions, if draws in its wake a host of practical obstacles which may very well prevent its ultimate fulfillment. Captain Creed has outlined a scheme of enormous potentialities, but he has left to those who follow after the monumental labor of arranging the details; and many of these already shadow forth the suggestion that they will present difficulties of mountainous proportions. It is even conceivable that the principle itself will miscarry; the occasions on which...
...things which makes the memory of University days precious to alumni is the recollection of the host of customs and traditions by which their undergraduate days were ruled. Like the Hand of Death and the Laws of the Medes and Persians, they were steadfast, unmovable, always present to remind the newcomer of the whims and fancies of his predecessors, and to serve as a connecting link between the young generation and the old. When a tradition is broken or a custom allowed to fall into disuse, something very close to the spirit of the college is taken away...
...examinations the undergraduate usually takes his professors as inevitable, and the consciousness that they are devoting the best of their years to the service of youth is but rarely gained. When a professor has been connected with the University for over fourteen years, however, when he has made a host of friends and admirers among his students, the knowledge of his intention to retire from the staff comes as a sharp reminder of all that he has done for the College and its members. And since Professor Turner has carved for himself an enviable niche in the hall of America...