Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
Wailing, he caused the howling cur to be led before him. A stern judge, he sentenced the ear-eating canine to fast for two days. Weeping, he cried: "Oh, sinful dog, how do I know that mine own father may not have transmigrated into thee? Lest I punish him in thee for this sin, I will fast with thee these two days...
...into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Robert Fisher, Harvard head coach for most of the time to which Hubbard's changes relate, condemns him unqualifiedly and hesitates to make any comment "o specific charges lest will give impetus to a subject that should never have been brought up." Representative Hamilton Fish, a former Harvard captain, is "ashamed" "that any ex-Harvard player should rush into print and charge Princeton football teams with deliberately playing dirty football and being coached to disable their opponents by illegal and unfair method." Fish played in a period when Harvard was almost uniformly victorious under Haughton's coaching...
...hesitate to comment on specific charges lest it give impetus to a subject which should never have been brought up. I shall do so only in the event that I feel, in justice to Princeton, this should be done...