Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hopeful thing is, that about all that it is necessary to do is to expose these great evils and let the light of public opinion kill them. We have got to earn our own living, but we should feel ashamed of ourselves if we haven't a surplus to spend for the nation on that public opinion. Nothing can resist the mass of clear-eyed men backed with the purpose of establishing justice and peace without...
There is nothing about which to be discouraged in our government. Anything looks black when you hold it up against the blazing light of Utopia; but it will look only marred if held where that light will shine upon it. Take for instance the impregnable jungle of our protective tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol...
...clock the Union will be closed to regular members and those on the invitation list will be admitted by the ladies' entrance at the east end of the building. The formal reception will be held in the Living Room from 9 to 10 o'clock, followed by a light supper which will be served in the Dining Room. At 9.30 o'clock dancing will begin in the Periodical Room and will continue until midnight...
After the reception a light supper will be served in the Dining Room, followed by dancing until midnight...
...find anywhere so exquisitely negligent an attitude toward a supposedly severe punishment as exists in the present undergraduate mind toward the man on probation? For utter non-chalance there is nothing like it. Not that the institution is ineffective, for the opposite is known to be true. But the light-hearted air in which one man, not on probation, will attempt to console his delinquent friend, cannot but appeal to the sense of humor. In the minds of the great majority, who are in good standing, probation is but a question of existing for a few months without the privilege...