Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sabbath nor the laws of the Puritans have been able to preserve their sanctity in the twentieth century. If inertia prevents the repeal of unwanted laws there are many precedents as well as every reason for suspending their operation where rigorous enforcement causes inconvenience to many and benefit to none...
Among the archaisms that grow green each year in the kindly air of Harvard none is more strange than that curious one--the Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations...
...results of the state board examinations were very gratifying. Again this year none of our graduates failed to pass their licensing examination in Massachusetts...
...None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified...