Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That part of the social fabric which is called the law," said he. "needs overhauling. ... It may well be that we shall discover among the mass of statutes, judicial decisions and administrative rulings which now confront us, some that are law, some that are partly law, some that are no law, and some that are antilaw. . . . When conduct and the law are at odds, the fault may lie with...
Whalen Days. Bandits entered a Brooklyn home near midnight, four men were killed in resultant battle. At 3 a. m. appeared Commissioner Whalen, "worked on the case" till 8 a. m. He then attended 9 o'clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph boys at City Hall. He then went to the West 20th Street station on another murder case. He then accompanied his daughter on a gallop through Central Park. He then went home (No. 43 Fifth Avenue), slept...
...Rafael Merry del Val stepped reluctantly out of the shadow of the retirement in which he has lived since the death of Pope Pius X, his beloved friend. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his elevation, at the hands of Pius X, to the cardinalate. He celebrated a high mass. He attended a banquet in his honor. Then once again he withdrew into the cloister of his memories...
...Tonypandy, Wales, 200 members of the Mid-Rhondda Choral Society gave first performance to a Christmas mass. It was composed by Edwin Gardner, local street cleaner, who, despite no technical knowledge of music, took inspiration from the noises of the street, worked out melodies on a wheezy home organ and turned out a mass that last week made him hero of the Rhondda coal district...
After all, it is hardly fair to arraign the undergraduate press alone for superficiality. A flow of printer's ink is the only division between the mass of students and the student editor. If cynic flippancy and supreme omniscience till the editorial pages, they are only the expression of one mind or the others of ill-directed curiosity that misses the value of circumspection, typical of the undergraduate attitude of today. The papers have become truer mirrors of current ideas than they ever tried...