Word: needless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needless to go any further. The case is clear against the Nicaraguans and relations should immediately be broken off. But if any further indictment of Sandino's tactics is necessary, it need only be stated that he actually had the temerity to "carry his dead off the field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there...
...make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman creature. In this case, the creature (generally referred to as the "Thing") is conjured into existence by a wicked surgeon to accomplish the death of four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter, rescues her from the disastrous embraces. Before this happens there have been many moments when watchers, in an agony of excitement, have twisted their terror into laughter. The hero...
...interested undergraduates that would be well and profitable for Bowdoin undergraduates to copy. It has no particular name of its own. In some places, the scheme is known as "sitting in on a course," at Harvard it is known as "vagabonding," and at other institutions the name varies. Needless to say, the practice has many advantages. As haphazard as the plan may prove to be, there is always and often the chance that a so-called vagabond lecture may prove to be stimulating and may awaken a real interest in the subject concerned. Such an interest would be easily satisfied...
...around the fabulous adventures of Barbara Frietchie, who falls in love with Captain Trumbull, a "damn Yankee." For the purposes of the plot Barbara is transformed from the elderly dame of "shoot if you must this old gray head" fame to a winsome flaxen-haired flower of the South. Needless to say, her father opposes the marriage, sah, in which opinion he is supported by all the lads and lassies of the town who vilify Barbara as traitor, overlooking the fact that among their number are many able bodies young fellows who spend their time lounging around town instead...
...enough, dealing, as so many seem to do nowadays, with the bootlegging industry. Jimmie Winters arrives at his Long Island home with his latest bride, having taken her as his wife on the chance that a divorce had already been granted to free him from a former matrimonial bond. Needless to say, the divorce had not been granted, as he learns by telegram soon after his arrival at his summer home. His latest wife, now not a wife in the eyes of the law, tears off to get her father and the shotgun...