Word: maze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time-encrusted palace in the jungle. Cryptic scribbling in mouldy volumes of Chaucer lead at last to-certain mislaid belongings of the globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards, bearded ladies, dengue fever, betel-chewing babus and-most resembling the structure of the book-live...
...Henry Yates Satterlee of Boston. Said the New York 'Evening Journal: "If Miss Goodhue elects St. Thomas's Church, she will pass through the 'bride door,' decorations for which were designed by her father, who cunningly concealed the dollar sign in a maze of Gothic carving, thereby arousing the indignation of many wealthy parishioners...
...Rats in Maze. If hungry rats and well-fed rats are put into a maze with food at the farther side, the hungry rats get through first, proving again that necessity is the mother of invention.-Dr. Arthur H. Smith; Dr. John F. Anderson, Rutgers College...
...ever been capable of challenging the justice of that epithet. How rash was her challenge? A large audience went to see. For them she danced. In chevelure of curled peruke, to a Mozart serenade, she swished her silken panniers, as did the belles of Bath, treading in the formal maze of a minuet, all the pride and fashion of the 18th Century caught in pattern of her narrow slippers. She danced a "Hurdy-Gurdy" dance like a marionette of ivory pulled on silver wires, to an imaginary music-box that slowly wound down and down. In gold boots and scarlet...
Massachusetts has become the attic of the University,--a place for tattered and unsightly odds and ends. Cluttered together in a maze of clapboard partitions and sagging stairways are the offices of the chief janitor, the headquarters of the college police, the carpenter shop of the 47 Workshop, and, in the left, the shabby offices of a few tutors in the department of Economics. Commendable institutions, unquestionably,--and yet they seem a trifle unworthy of the oldest and most beautiful building in the University...