Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every college student, if he be of the true breeds, burns with enthusiasm and determination to accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment...
...hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...
...people marry? Not-so the Rev. Paul Dresser of Bath, Maine, aroused the National Council of Swedenborgian Ministers, meeting at Cincinnati, last week, by telling them-not solely for the procreation of children. "Marriage itself, in its purity, is the precious jewel of the Christian religion, and is heaven on earth." Mr. Dresser went on to quote Mrs. Margaret Sanger on the race of morons which is threatening our civilization. Said he: ''God only knows, how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are born every year, of whom it could truthfully be said...
...public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...from the old grads pining for the panty days. The democratic student at Harvard would not be aware of any menace to the grand old institution were it not for the atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass tack. E. Austin Benner...