Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good spring nights the Yard should ring to "Bow, bow, ye lower-middle classes" in place of "Rinehart", and nothing could be more appropriate this week than "A policeman's lot is not a happy one." So, bow, bow, you slaving underclass men, to the inevitable, and order your tickets in advance...
These boys, to the great misfortune of their admirers, have been signed up permanently for some time. But their delicious pieces have not lessened in appeal. To those students whose lot it is to remain in Cambridge for the vacation Gilbert and Sullivan will be welcomed as saving graces. To those who are leaving they may be regarded as something in which to return...
...Even if the Americans have a lot of money, we French," he interposed a sweeping gesture at his bookcase, "we have a lot of paper dollars. What a richness, what a flowering of genius is our epoch, and how poor is America in this respect when compared with us. She counts hardly ten talented writers, Dreiser, Stinclair Lewis, Sherwood. Anderson, Cabell, and several others, Consider out own authors: Maurras, Marsau, Morand, Maurois, Mauriase, Miomandre, Montherland, Magre, Mille, Martin du Gard... There are ten already, and I have only listed those whose names begin with M. We can be proud...
...pearls. It's impossible to say anything about Melcher; you've got to see him to appreciate his antics, and here's some friendly advice--wear a surcingle to keep yourself from falling to pieces with laughter. That lady could show most of these modern gold diggers a whole lot about hydraulic mining...
...house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more'n you do!" shouted Mrs. Youmans, catching her wind. "You don't know enough to teach the children good manners. I know the law. My husband's a policeman!" Teacher Dougherty indicated that if Mrs. Youmans was going to make a disturbance she would have...