Word: keyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Work! I thought I was just about to share in it, when the officers of the Widener Library gave me talismans more precious to me than those of the Arabian Nights, the key to the stacks, and the key to my study. Alas. May I say that never thoroughly discovered what the undisturbed peace of the scholar in his study meant, and that I was quite unable to explore completely the treasures fled in Widener? I was surrounded by so many friends--old ones, whom I was happy, to meet again, new ones, whom I was happy, to make...
...CLUE OF THE NEW PIN?Edgar Wallace?Small, Maynard ($1.90). Jesse Trasmere, an eccentric millionaire who made his money in China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes...
...success in them are sufficiently alluring so that it seems hardly advisable to ask Phi Beta Kappa to forsake its standards and be come also an extra-curriculum activity. . . . The election to Phi Beta Kappa means just one thing, no more and no less, and everyone knows what the key stands for. It means that in open competition with a fair field and no favor the key is given to those who have excelled in the studies of the curriculum, Phi Beta Kappa connotes scholarship and it would be changing both its policy and its standards to make it cannot...
...ability", a member of the Junior class at the University, who will be selected by the college authorities with the approval of a committee representing the donors of the scholarship. This committee consists of A. B. von Adelung '21, Donald Angier '22, M. P. Baker '22, D. M. Key '22, and A. D. Welton...
...plot is perfectly adequate, and turns on the repeated attempts of a man to get started on a lone expedition to the heart of Africa after gold. He gets the key to the gold-mine, and incidentally to the address of the heroine, from the money-belt of a dead Englishman whom he runs across in the jungle. First he gambles away his money, then gets blown up and severely injured in a mine in Johannesburg, and finally falls in love and gets married...