Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better movies are on the current bill at the University Theatre this week. Ann Harding, in "Her Private Affair", shows how infinitely superior the better stage actresses are to the average movie-trained chit, and completely carries off a difficult part to the satisfaction of this reviewer's not lenient taste...
...TIME, Jan. 30, 1928 et seq.), is at work trying to decide just how much or how little more freedom India should be given, not "someday" but soon. The charge against the MacDonald Government last week was that they had tried to stampede the Simon Commission into making a lenient report by ordering the Viceroy to issue a proclamation in effect anticipating the Commission's verdict...
...move the case elsewhere. As a sample of local sentiment, they offered an editorial in a Gastonia paper: "The blood of our beloved chief cries out to high heaven for vengeance. The shooting was part of a deep-laid scheme of Russian Anarchists. Gaston County has already been too lenient with these despicable curs and snakes from the dives of Passaic, Hoboken and New York...
...departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than...
...Manhattan other famed girls' schools are the intellectually alive Brearley's; aristocratic, simple Miss Chapin's, lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...