Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard has the privilege and the responsibility of playing host to a gathering which has unique potentialities for influencing eastern college life...
...presence of small children in the White House immediately after Inauguration and for some time subsequent, also helped pitch the White House in a new key. One of the first articles of furniture to be moved in was a crib for Grandchild Herbert Hoover 3rd, aged 13. The house was his. He romped and played and chortled up and down its long upstairs corridor. Oldtime servitors had not seen such family fun since the days of the Roosevelts...
...interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house is on fire. Instead of leaving, they stay to entertain the firemen. As the flames curl outside the windows, one of the firemen telephones the office for the key to the next room. The other tunes a violin, giving the excuse: "Not enough time to practice at home." Libby Holman, that singing girl who improves so tremendously on Helen Morgan, has a full-throated Harlem sonata, "Moanin' Low." Most of the lyrics were written by nimble-witted Howard...
...Key points of the Young Plan...
...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph key...