Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the members of the Class of 1925 assemble to make merry for the last time as undergraduates amidst the scenes which have become so much a part of themselves during the four years past. "In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind", surrounded by family and friends, the Senior welcomes Class Day as the forerunner of Commencement...
...other period in history, and in no other race, has virtue been so curious about her sisters." But, culture being reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady and the Carpet-More of the same mood, wherein globe-trotting female self-expressionists are contrasted with 1) a quiet, acute Circassian, the stay-at-home spouse of a ship's surgeon; 2) a self-made young business woman from Harlem who, gazing on Roman antiquities, simply remarked her preference for things brand...
This was not at all to the liking of C. W. Peterson, manager of the Farmers' Produce Association of North Branch, Minnesota. Mr. Peterson wired the Department of Agriculture, anent the oncoming 1925 potato shortage, to "keep your mouth shut." Afterwards, in calmer mood, Mr. Peterson explained that no insult to the Department was intended, that his frank advice arose from the farmers in his vicinity promptly planting so many potatoes that a 10% increase over 1924 was now imminent...
...Pops Concert which will take place at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
...commit ourselves, with the best face we can, to . . . a gamble which may have a more than even chance of partial success. Nevertheless, most people now . . . sincerely wish that they had not talked so much about the blessings of hurrying back to par. It is in this chastened mood that the British public will submit their necks once more to the golden yoke-as a prelude, perhaps, to throwing it off forever at not a distant date...