Word: latested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader opens the latest issue of the Lampoon in his customary mood of funmaking, the content of the paper is harmlessness itself. If there be any who are not acquainted with the traditional undergraduate attitude, they may be shocked to find the Lampoon, far from grateful for the manna let fall by heaven in the lean weeks between Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day, snarling at the generous hand. The consequences of such misinterpretation would not, however, be great. The only possible tragedy resulting would be that of one who took seriously what is clearly humor...
...become almost invisible. There is certainly nothing to be lost by permitting the open tournaments, and the stimulus they will give to public interest is alone worth gaining. It seems as if the Association has recognized the fact that its old position is rapidly becoming untenable; if the latest move is to be taken as indicating a tendency it is inevitable that it must soon be re-established on some new basis...
...nothing; a man is everything," said Napoleon in one of his most famous and tersely paradoxical dicta. Much the same remark, somewhat differently phrased applies very well to the latest play by William Hodge, "Straight Thru the Door...
Harvard's Department of Anthropology has already entered into an agreement with the Pathe News people to make somewhat dead subjects more significant, more graphic to the amateur scientist. But compared to the latest educational experiment of the History Department, the cinema idea must be classed as sterile in promoting interest and enthusiasm. Making dead bones live on the screen is tame compared to the thrills to be had in seeing members of the History Department, in costume, reenacting the glorious deeds of the past. Consider, for instance, the possibilities of staging the Defenestration of Prague from Memorial Hall...
William Hodge, actor and writer of his own plays, had just come off the stage after the final curtain of his latest play, "Straight Thru the Door", and was sitting in his dressing room attired in the tuxedo coat and white trousers in which he appeared in his last scene. It really am a rather dry proposition for an interview," he remarked in his quiet way to the scribe who was waiting for him, "but I can at least tell you where I got the basis for my play...