Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, to handle the glistening notes and bonds on Wall Street. We shall leave it to you to dissect anatomies and excavate ancient Egyptian tombs. We do not intend to pour forth stirring speeches at the bar or pleading editorials from the press. We will choose, instead, to mould...
...interim, the apathy which until now has characterized the politics of Harvard has given way to sincere if violent expression, and the lid is off a campaign of roars instead of whispers...
...court the virginal teaser appears as a voluntary witness, convinces the magistrate that she was the cause of the fight and tells the crowded courtroom (which includes her mother) that she is a lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James...
Such were the questions which sophisticated Europeans discussed last week. For from Vienna came a report that the Bulgarian Government had decided that teachers should no longer dress at will, but should, instead, wear uniforms. But, also, European sophisticates, knowing how many unfounded rumors start in Vienna, gave only moderate credence to the story...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...