Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder, envy, anger, relief. In Washington, Navy officials were shocked, embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
...Yielding none of its peculiar educational features, St., Stephen's, an Episcopal college for men, became yesterday a part of Columbia University. St. Stephen's College has not only been one of the first to introduce the English in tutorial system in America, but it has realized the tenets of progressive educationalists by allowing its students complete intellectual freedom. Only men of exceptional ability are admitted, and those who do not prove qualified are dropped at the end of the second year. For most of the Juniors and Seniors there are no classes, but individual work with tutors...
Harvard men who visit a new restaurant in Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...
There is much to be said for this method of carrying on the affairs of state. While Republicans worry over oil bonds and Democrats try to acquire an issue worth supporting, the leaders of their smaller rivals can have all the fun and none of the troubles. Campaign funds are too small to cause any fear of scandal, speeches can be made just as effectively no matter who the listeners, and there is always the hope that one of them may be a modern David and down the Goliaths...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...