Word: moth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feels one's age these days." And salt tears streak down the rusted sides. For out in the great open spaces where men use Mennen's and the young fry get their culture on Mont-martre, sweaters are crossing the old campus grasses with the essence of moth balls, prominent and newly shined fraternity pins-resplendent. The Third Class Tourists are home...
Even the most rabid Klansman must feel at times when he puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern...
...play the hypocrite. For in this case as in many others the precise caption is--"Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great number of graduates from these many American universities and colleges there will be so few who will strive, not as a moth for a star, because the moth never does see the star, but as vigorous, vital human beings toward the high hills of existence which neither a contented faculty or a contented public will ever dream of. In such struggle there is little comfort and little pay--but in June when...
Custom, always moth-eaten and unimaginative, decrees that, in the phraseology of Olympus, there shall be a recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...
...upon another class of insects. The economic importance of this fact is well known. Where insects are introduced into a foreign country they often prove very destructive because there are usually in that country no parasites to prey on them. This, you know, was the case of the Gypsy Moth. This month was introduced from Europe, and has wreaked great havoc upon the trees here in the east...