Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville's new $5,000,000 municipal bridge (then unopened to the public-but since thrown open to traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited...
...point of fact Wilhelm II kept in telephonic touch with the hospital up to the last moment, sent a wreath to the funeral, appeared more than most of his entourage to have forgiven Princess Victoria, once his "Little Vickie"* and favorite sister, for the shame and ridicule she brought upon the House of Hohenzollern by marrying Subkoff?a gigolo...
...Yale Fence came to a formal and very appropriate close. Harvard's famous jester has completed what promises to be a famous jest, and those upon whom the trick was turned have availed themselves of that grace which is too often overlooked in the heat of an unpleasant moment. To laugh when the joke is on oneself only makes a good thing better...
...chief reason that "Sweetie" is superior to the average of its school is that it dares for a moment or so to indulge in just a trace of satire. There is for example the episode when Mr. Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb...
...when near the enemy goal line. It is possible that several slight changes will be made in the semi-kick formation which the Crimson has used in its last few games in order to provide Coach Horween's men with a play that will click at the critical moment...