Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What time Radcliffe suggests to Harvard that she "formally join Harvard" in anything other than a mutual "nolo contendere" that moment must inaugurate catastrophe, Radcliffe may mix her metaphors, "when properly endowed"; she may mix her dramatics, for, as has been well said, few are thus disturbed. She must not mix her affairs with those of Harvard. The blushes of Emerson and Agassiz daily reprove those careless female tortoises, to keep the figure, who invade the buildings which bear their names...
...futile to cavil at trifles! After the first five minutes of your visit to fairyland, Iolanthe and her sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...
...prank was played on the steamship company; at least by this party, but the excitement attendant upon such an event has completely upset our mental processes and we can think of nothing better to do than reminisce and wait for that nine weeks distant moment when we too shall join that vast company which goes down to the sea and then into the ships...
...entered an apron factory, which I have now owned for 18 years, as an ordinary worker. Why should I tell you how long ago that was? . . . Today my husband has his business, too, but we keep all that separate from one another. I expect my two daughters to join me in my business when their education is complete; and my only son intends to enter his father's business. . . . [Smiling] He is not tied to his mother's apron strings...
...boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive chords...