Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Waxahachie Light: Harvard University has opened a department for the purpose of teaching policemen. As if any policeman would admit that there is anything he does not already know...
...course, before going one might know the play ought to be amusing, since Harry Leon Wilson, none other, wrote it. But "Ruggles of Red Gap," also the work of this same man, fell flat, although it had possibilities, and this due to the poor dramatization. Lee Wilson Dodd, however, in the present case, has done his task well, for there is as much dramatic consistency shown as is necessary and thorough sagacity in the arrangement of the dialogue. One rule which has been wisely followed is that of moderation and restraint, and the result is that the taste of caricature...
There is skating, good skating, on the Charles. Yet it is curiously true that comparatively few of us know anything about it. It is perhaps lamentable that a walk of five or ten minutes should deter us from using the river, but it does. The condition obtains except with greater intensity, as in the case of our tennis courts. If some afternoon during the tennis season you will walk to the courts on Jarvis field, and then to those on Soldiers Field, and compare the numbers using each, you will appreciate the inhibitive force of distance. I am confident that...
...they meant this description, because I couldn't have found even in my own part of the country, more kindly reception than was extend to me last evening. So I am mighty glad I came to Harvard, and now I can tell our people in the South that you know what hospitality means...
...Austrian instrument-maker has provided us with five violins two violas, a cello and a contrabass, made of birchwood. I provided the strings and I know not how many unfortunate Siberian horses sacrified their tails for the bows. All the war prisoners, particularly the Hungarians, need music almost as much as food. They simply cannot exist without it. When instruments cannot be bought they make them out of whatever happens to be available...