Word: ink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judges in the Advocate's recent short-story competition seem to have made a sound choice in awarding the prize to E. A. Weeks, '22, for his story entitled "Ink", which appears in the current issue of the magazine. "Ink" is a slight story. Its heroine, a girl who "has assuredly passed the dancing debutante years" and is approaching "the gardening, auction, book-club age of thirty," receives a love letter and a piece of Bokhara embroidery from a somewhat sentimental young man in India whom she has kept dangling for years in a state of miserable uncertainty. Her niece...
Edward Augustus Weeks '22, of Elizabeth, N. J., has been awarded the prize of $25 for the best story submitted in the Advocate's second annual prize story competition, which closed shortly before the Christmas vacation. Weeks' story is entitled "Ink," and will appear in the next issue of the Advocate. The judges, Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, "Holworthy Hall," alias Harold E. Porter '09, and Arthur Stanwood Pier '95, also selected the stories, "Jehan," by Oliver Lefarge '24 of New York City; and "Angelo," by Sherman Skinner Rogers '22, of Santa Barbara, Cal., fon honorable mention...
...owner of the great syndicate to an acid test. The returns will tell the story of a democracy in which one man can lead millions through the great power of his wealth, or they will tell an altogether different story. They will reveal that people will buy red ink with enthusiasm, devour the Sunday scandal supplement with gusto, and chuckle gleefully over the comic section but, having nibbled the lurid bait they will shy from the hook...
...contributions are as fine wit as Lampy ever filled her pages with. Perhaps it is a too-young Arnold (Matthew, not Benedict) that flays this stuff that oldsters offer. But if it is, so be it. We would rather have a regular number from the fountain pens and India ink of the Sophomores than this special spring oddity that the graduates have thrown together...
Miss Elsie Ferguson is exciting a great deal of discussion with her performance at the Morosco Theatre of Arnold Bennett's "Sacred and Profane Love." When the play was first put on the boards in London, the London "Pan" spilled a little ink as follows...