Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb says--but, in the long run as Nurnri used to say, it is worth it. For physicists can learn what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body and doctors can leave why, when he signs up has chorus, a burlesque manager takes on flesh...
...cross between an idiot and a maniac? Sometimes one thinks their case is pathological. Sometimes one wonders if a Society for the Introduction of Civilization into Large Colleges would do any good? Would it cure these Dionysians, graduate and undergraduate, if they were settled among the Pueblo Indians to learn gentlemanly sportsmanship and the rudiments of breeding? But this would be laying too hard a task upon those children of an immemorial culture --New York Times...
...three principals Pearl Ragay snatches the show with two remarkable dances, one noteworthy for its grace, the other of interest for the unbelievable litheness of body it demonstrates. There is nothings in the second dance to please the eye, but anatomists must rally to Lad Fair, if only to learn what the human body...
Privately run jails for young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...unexpected. Three weeks Princeton has had to perfect those weeks Princeton has had to perfect those unbalanced lines and trick forwards that have belied an early season record before Students of zoology have known for some spots does not apply to tigers, and Crimson football followers may learn it this afternoon...