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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After introductions, which included some comment or topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Mrs. Conant, still holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

The CRIMSON seems to have misled readers by implying that a midshipman will be discharged simply for attending a function similar to an AYD folk dance or some such thing. Such is not the case, since the oath demands the signer to outline in detail his relationship with any particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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