Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge again denied (no one has counted the number of these denials) that he would change his mind about the 1928 nomination...
...John Burns who was called to Washington last week was not the William John Burns of a few years ago, though he was the same man. Detective Burns was once a U. S. hero. In 1924, how ever, he had the misfortune to be come associated in the public mind with the "Ohio Gang" ? an association which has tinged many a man with villainy...
...weak voice. One may sleep a good part of the morning, and then having breakfasted, read a newspaper. In these two exercises no difficulty will be found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces of the silver screen where the spectator may be a vicarious hero just as in the Stadium, and with as little trouble...
Under the title "Treat Us Like Men," Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton College discusses, in the current Saturday Evening Post, the vagaries of the undergraduate mind, conscience, and particularly the sense of liberty. It is a wise and humorous treatment of a subject which must have driven many a dean in many college to the borders of insanity-the student who, when haled into court for over-cutting or neglect of studies, waves the banner of liberty and demands to be treated like a man; and who, when confronted later with some such item as a bill for broken furniture...
...only previously unacquainted, but with nothing to stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense of glamor in stories with a Harvard background, as Fitzgerald has used the background of his university, have failed completely; why Harvard, to the average mind; never suggests the nebulous, romantic ideal of college life...