Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky-wanderer is pursuing a course divergent from the one original computed for it and now seems to lie along a line passing through the earth and the sun, it will not be readily visible as at first believed. When it comes within range, it will be for only one nocturnal appearance...
...film is a monstrous lie!" shouted Colonel Rollet. "You know, Soldier Clare, there is justice in the Legion." "Oui, mon Colonel." "I wish I had the man here who made that film!* "But you, Soldier Clare, know that it is a lie. When you return to America, give us a square deal. Tell the truth, that's all I want." "Oui, mon Colonel." "Touchy." At Marseille, Deserter Doty said: "Colonel Rollet is a touchy old egg, but he's been on the level. . . . The Legion is no young ladies' seminary, though I've never been...
...terms a didactic decisions, but as the ancient instrument of justice, an instrument not unadaptable to the meeting of present and coming needs. At a time when too much insistence on the letter of local law has resulted in a national growth of contraditory decrees, the remedy may lie in fresh application of the old principle...
...type, whether as burlesque, original or modernization. Where, the question has been propounded, are new examples of the old methods? Where is the college parallel to George Kelly, to Maxwell Anderson? It is not, one may say quite assuredly, to be found in "The Chisholm Trail", but it does lie a great deal nearer it than, say, "The Orange Comedy...
...glad Christmas festival since the latter observance arrogated so much time to itself, and it is greeted with a succession of gutterals even in those class rooms where the practise is frowned upon. Its debilitating influence on colds makes the catching of them merely nominal. In reality they lie at one's feet for the making. Now an open window means an absorbing flow of mucus. Wet feet provoke an interesting condition wherein the brain becomes remote from the sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will can not arouse a thought...