Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtue must have its vacations and that college regulations must inevitably be sometimes disobeyed. And although there is a certain sportsmanlike joy in slipping one over on the administration, one's honor cannot be similarly lightly treated. The honor system holds one too strictly.. It is a pretty idea, but it works too well...
...Capital-v.-Labor lobby wrangled long. The Shipstead bill remained an idea on paper...
Headmaster Mather A. Abbott of Lawrenceville: ". . .A greater sense of social responsibility. In fact, I "have an idea that times have changed and that boys are holding up morality...
...people who came to the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, on the day a prize was to be awarded to that Philadelphian who had performed the most noteworthy service to the community of which his city is the centre, had no idea to whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check...
...widow with a business head. She filled it with bogus antiques, planned to sell it at a huge profit. But her nephew, John Maple, who considered himself the rightful heir of Rackham, resolved to buy it at a humble figure. One weekend, Hilda invited to Rackham, with the idea of hornswoggling them into buying the place, gouty Lord Mere de Beaurivage and Lord Hamilcar Hellup, a retired U. S. millionaire. Lord Hellup's daughter, Bo, and her lover, John Maple, were also on the scene with nefarious plans. Being something of a ventriloquist and wearing spooky robes, John Maple makes...