Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammond, in a letter published elsewhere in this column, feels that the "one primary issue" in connection with inter-House eating is the "bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality in the House." He fears that the system right be used by narrow groups "to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests." The desirability of House corporate personality can be much exaggerated; yet if the fears expressed are well-founded, they constitute a just objection to the plan...
...certainly here "imaginings are...worse than the reality." There is, in the first place, a considerable inertia inducing men to eat in their own House. Any narrow eating club would find the discrepancies as to the members' 11 and 12 o'clock classes standing in the way of regular gatherings. And should a student fill his quota by being host, say, to three visitors on three occasions, he would find himself pressed financially unless he in turn were regularly invited out by his guests, an unlikely and inconvenient procedure. Inter-House eating was originally proposed by the CRIMSON...
...guests which creates the problem as the use of the system to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests. It is unnecessary to dilate upon this point; to imagine for instance, groups of men who would circulate from House to House as a narrow eating club, because one's imaginings are perhaps worse than the reality. Personally I think that the eating of a certain number of meals in the House is essential, though on the other hand, if the House exercises no other appeal, compulsory meals of themselves will not build up the corporate...
...purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about the rogue's chateau that when he has rescued his flower girl by a narrow margin they will have enough to live on for a long time to come. Secrets of the French Police was adapted from H. Ashton-Wolfe's Secrets of the Surété and Samuel Ornitz' The Lost Empress, retaining the wildest features of each...
...space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since...