Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obligation-yet we will live up to it! "Voluntarily," they are saying. "Your conscience, gentlemen," as Sir Edward put it. The conscience, mind you, of gentlemen who were hearing these "nonobligatory agreements" expounded for the first time and on August...
...avoid an enticing side issue, let me state that I never have been, and am not now, an admirer of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition is a live topic of the day and is fair subject for ridicule, as are all such matters. Some may feel that, as an inspiration of wit it is somewhat worn, but, after all, an Ivy Orator has a hard time, so we will not question his seeking humor in prohibition...
...have forgotten the name of that Ivy Orator. I do not wish to recall it. If he has not already regretted his bad taste, he doubtless will live to do so. We are not concerned with him, but we are concerned with the future. We do not again wish to have a Harvard Class day marred with such lack of reverence. Yours very sincerely. W. Hustace Hubbard...
...Rumania stands. . . . Rumania, the country I love and have to live for, stands and stands! ... I am the link with the past-the one still on guard. . . . Rumania and I are one. No joys, no griefs can come to Rumania that are not mine...
Dumas' story of the diamond necklace, cause celebre, E. Barrington dismisses for its fictional parts and characters. "It needs no decoration from fiction, and I have told it as it happened . . . merely touching history with imagination and making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated...