Word: intents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find oneself basking in the midst of fifty six of the world's most pulchritudinous young ladies is considerably worse than being under the scrutiny of any number of Aunts intent upon finding resemblances of dear departed Cousin Oswald. But for all of that familiar fish-estranged-from-water feeling there was plenty of compensation behind the scenes of Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" during an evening performance. But the chief substance of this is that from the point of view of an eye witness the far famed fifty six have earned their title...
...wish some of the boys out at Harvard would realize that," interjected Miss Violet a bit strenuously. "You see," she continued, "We happened to be out with two of these gentlemen the other evening and they were so intent upon informing us what 'big' men they were that we really had quite an uninspiring evening. They seemed to think that actresses had to be impressed or otherwise they would consider their escorts inadequate...
...musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill as one might at first be led to suppose, but the spirit of Tom Sawyer seems to have been sufficiently revived so that tales of heroism are not lacking. What chance has the collegiate youth against such splendor? Obviously nothing, and may God have mercy on his soul...
...morrow. Too long, he mused, had he postponed the struggle with the broken pens, the clotted ink, the sartorial, laundry, and periodical soliciters which awaited him in his old haunts at Memorial Hall and its surrounding greensward. Now he would be pushed and jostled by his late fellow arrivals intent on registering before the Bursar demanded an extra check for $5 from his already depleted bank deposit...
...intent of the letter written by F. E. Stanton Jr. of Paterson, N. J. and printed in your issue, is to imply that I larcenously appropriated Mr. E. E. Slocum's highly entertaining contribution about The Fighting Fish of Bangkok and deliberately used it as my own in a story written for the Boston Post, Mr. Stanton is (can you hear me now?) a liar and you are another unless you withdraw that Copycat caption...