Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palestine; he had started the Oxford Settlement, a social centre whose purpose it was to apply Oxford methods of tempered decency to roughs, toughs, hooligans. He read of his appointment on top of a bus, and looked dismally forward to the time when he would be forced to live in a palace. The Right Honorable and Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram took two rooms in the palace for himself. The rest he turned over to the servants. Every Saturday afternoon he gave a party, but instead of the Duchesses and financiers' widows who had so often graced...
Those who in their cursory glance at the late days of the Nineteenth Century see only the faded features of fin de siecle gentlemen with yellow roses in conspicuous button holes, men who can only live in history as characters in a travesty, called "The Mauve Decade", forget that more vigorous people were living and working at that time. Dartmouth College this week mourns the death of such a person, vigorous and vital...
...been called a comedy of American low life by which is meant that the characters are not Anglo-Saxon, do not speak copper plate English, nor live in trim little apartments furnished with a show of opulence. The scenery is therefore different, a bit less polished, and a relief from drawing rooms. Then again, the play is unusually terse. At moments, the characters are voluble enough,--when they deviate into politics or prohibition,--but at the moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest...
...order that the Student Council may live up to its guarantee that there will be no more drives during the coming college year, it will be necessary that every pledge now in its hands be fulfilled. Neglect to pay, the bills which will be sent out in a few weeks would place the Student Council in an embarrassing situation...
Thus the young teachers at Harvard are either those who delight in pure pedantry or those who take sections that they may help themselves to live while they go through the mill of the doctorate. Some of the latter know something of what they are teaching. They are in the position of an undergraduate, concentrating in French, who spends so many hours a week teaching classes in French at his preparatory school. These are the men who are assisting in courses with big ideas unopened in minds where parcels of roots are being unwrapped and put on shelves...