Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...
...English game differs from its American counterpart chiefly in the matter of scoring. A point is tallied only when the server wins the rally in England. Another minor difference lies in the English rule that being struck by the ball at any time constitutes loss of the point...
...Harvard has been particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of the Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary, were both quashed of Supreme Court decisions as illegal or unconstitutional. In the present instance again though minor in importance legal facts have apparently been overlooked or not given sufficient consideration. In a university, possessing one of the greatest law schools in the world the repetition of these slips is strangely anomalous...
...Harvard has been particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of the Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary were both quashed by Supreme Court decisions as illegal or unconstitutional. In the present instance again, though minor in importance, legal facts have apparently been overlooked or not given sufficient consideration. In a University possessing one of the greatest law schools in the world the repetition of these slips is strangely anomalous...
Broadhurst, West 44th St.--Back stage at a night club, with bootleggers, butter-and-egg men, murders, detectives, lovers, etc. Lee Tracy as the self-made "hoofer" almost makes you believe there is such a person. Eloise Stream, in a minor part, convinces you of her reality. You can't help being conscious of the fact that Sylvia Field, playing opposite Tracy, is acting...