Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When questioned about the prospects for success in the coming debate, Chapman said: "There is a great deal of good material in the college and if we can whip it into shape, things look decidedly bright...
...would do a thing like that. Of course there are times when it would be intriguing, Haven't you wished you could place just a small bottle upon the head of some recalcitrant lady to silence her for a few minutes. You haven't? How odd. It makes them look so happy. For never is one so beatific looking as when beneath a lily and the tears of his friends he dreams of Elysian bars...
...recent appointment of Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University to fill the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry next year at Harvard has called forth considerable editorial comment in a wide variety of publications. Practically all of the opinions expressed look upon Professor Murray's coming here as a definite step in intellectual progress. Unanimous comment has also been made on the fact that the word poetry in connection with this professorship is to be taken in its broadest sense and is to include poetic expression, not only in language, but in music and the fine arts...
...quite agree with you that it would not look well if it were stated to the public that the only object of my visit to Ireland was on account of the races. It was very kind of you to give me the Order of St. Patrick, which I am only too happy to receive and be installed as a Knight in the Cathedral, as proposed...
Books. Viscount Leverhulme was not much of a reader. He liked to look at books with pictures in them, the kind of pictures he saw in Punch or on theatrical handbills. He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale. The people who bought his books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked...