Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
...copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
...course, one gets to think of these reformer people as queer long-haired strangers who care neither for the best or the nice things in life. But the Boston dinner party of the other evening proved that they too can become gorged with hilarity and paint the town as red as the rest of their less significant brethren...
...tenure of this position should be for a short period not only is backed up by a growing precedent, but it would appear to have several decided points in its favor. Occupancy of the Assistant Dean's office by a successive series of men fresh from their own undergraduate life insures youthful tone to a section of University Hall all too likely under ordinary circumstances to become a formidable monster in the eyes of some students. The transitory aspect of the appointment also enables graduates in doubt between academic or nonacademic careers to pause on the threshold a moment before...
...Christianity and a better interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration of the part religion can play in the complex life of the undergraduate." With this in mind, eminent divines have wrestled moderately with science and religion...