Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World has decided to dispense with the services of Heywood Broun. His disloyalty to this paper makes any further association impossible...
...journalism, using the World as an example of how bad the best is: "The World on numerous occasions has been able to take two, three or even four different stands with precisely the same material in hand. So constant were the shifts during the Sacco-Vanzetti case that the paper seemed like an old car going up hill. In regard to Nicaragua the World has thundered on Thursdays and whispered on Monday mornings. Again and again the paper has managed to get a perfect full-nelson on some public problem only to let its opponent slip away because its fingers...
Regardless of this paper sword which swung above Bishop McConnell's liberal head, his associates elected him to head the court of seventeen ministers who would hear less frivolous charges brought against Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference...
...schedule-the brain battle between undergraduates of Harvard and Yale Universities. For three hours, one afternoon last week, a picked team of ten Yale seniors wrote answers to the regular examination paper which was given to all Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly...
...same time, in Cambridge, Mass., the team of ten Harvard seniors answered the same examination paper (in next year's tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...