Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford, Carroll continued his magazine, and a copy is shown in which is written the first stanza of the "Jabberwock," which was afterwards expanded into the book, "Through the Looking Glass." With the stanza is a key to the meanings of the unintelligible words: "Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves, Did gyre and gymble in the Wabe." The original drawings by John Tennie for the illustrations of the first editions of "Alice in Wonderland," and "Though the Looking Glass," are also exhibited, as well as a first edition of the former with a frontispiece colored by Tennie...
Setting forth as he does this morning for the third time upon his annual periginations the Student Vagabond wishes to lay down at the very beginning his plan of campaign, the key, so to speak, to his cultural museum. In the first place he intends to give especial comment only to those examples of intellectual interest which in his judgement-subject though it may be to err-seem to warrant such notice. Moreover, going on the principle that it is well to lay up good things for the future, he intends to list his specimens not only...
...ceaselessly; when he is resting it is less confusing to have a substitute voice of close resemblance. Mr. Carlin was a boyhood orator in Manhattan public schools. He entered the silk business. He went to war. He joined WEAF as an announcer and is now manager of the Manhattan key station...
...matter of fact, Francis Scott McBride is no more related to Francis Scott Key than he is to Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Strange things have happened in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but for the general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America to be related to the author of This Side of Paradise is a little too bizarre to be true. The author of Flappers and Philosophers and The Great Gatsby is indeed a connection of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But not so the Anti-Saloon League Superintendent...
...fall seems to indicate that the strength of Harvard's 1927 football team defends largely on the advantage to which F. A. Clark '29 turns his lanky, powerful frame. Whether or not it is granted that one man can thus make or break a team, it appears that the key to the tackle situation, at least, rests with Clark...