Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity that an appearance upon the Stage becomes an anti-climax; and even if this were not so, what is the public eye which some people still regard as synonymous with the evil eye--compared to a small but substantial fortune which will enable one to enjoy obscurity for life if it be desired...
...usual emphasis placed on the private life of the once great men. Mr. Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
...cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point it might be well to admit that the good stories...
Strawn left the discussion of the Chicago mayor with this final remark, and turned to the subject of his address at the Law School, which was suggested by a misstatement of the lawyer's place in modern life in a recent magazine article entitled "Officers of the Court...
Dispatches from the alien world of English university life are not often of a nature to cause the student at Harvard to bow his head and give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University restricting the under-graduate use of automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental...