Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor put it on the front page under a "by-line." Seasoned reporters eventually get used to seeing their names over stories...
From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal...
This evening, at the 15th anniversary banquet, President Lowell will present the shingle and key to each of the 34 new members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The ceremony will take place at the Union at 6.30 o'clock, after which the meeting will adjourn to the Faculty Room for the annual winter banquet...
...quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent...
Committees from the Student Councils of Harvard and Princeton may meet early next month to discuss relations between the two universities. A suggestion that such a conference be held was the key-note sent yesterday by L. F. Daley '27, President of the Student Council, to Joseph Prendergast, President of the Princeton Senior Council...