Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love, the real thing. Lest they shatter the life of Ann's gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking miners-and seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...
...visitors are more or less an unknown quantity, but St. John's baseball team are traditionally well-coached, hard-hitting aggregations, from which much trouble may be expected. Lest year's Freshman outfit succeeded in overhauling an early disadvantage to conquer the schoolboys by a 9 to 3 count...
...finding his paint box exhausted in the interests of embryonic art. Such attention must be significant whether deserved or not. It was not so long ago that the long, long haired sister expressed a preference for the military buttons of the soldier boy. The present comment is at lest an indication of the fact that the same benevolent attention is bestowed upon the irresponsibilities of the big brother. Fortunately or unfortunately, circumstances have intervened to absolve him of his guilt, since the participants referred to in the above scornful condemnation were not Harvard...
...note at the dinner was the presence of Chief Justice Taft who attended his first Gridiron party 40 years ago as Solicitor-General. Since his elevation to the Supreme Court, however, the Chief Justice has shunned such horseplaying performances lest the dignity of his court be impaired. This year he not only attended (presumably on assurances that the Supreme Court would be omitted from the fun-making), but also made a speech to the 400 guests which, under the rules of the club, may not be reported...