Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCarl's magnanimity to the next President pro tempore of the Senate adds new interest to the queston of who will next occupy that post. Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa (co-parent of the railroad act) is now the possessor of that office. But Senator Cummins' health has been none too good. It was generally understood at the conclusion of the last Congress that he would not seek again to become President pro tempore. Senator Curtis of Kansas was expected to succeed to the post. Senator Moses of New Hampshire has been mentioned. Reports from Washington declare...
Children of the Moon. The moon, according to the thesis of this curiously cabalistic play, is a bad parent. Each month when her silver face is toward the earth she curls invisible, strange tentacles around her children's minds and cuts for a time their contact with the world...
...left at the Dean's office, should be addressed to the Treasurer of the Loan Fund, stating the amount desired, the financial situation of the applicant, what aid, if any the applicant has previously received from the College, and, if the applicant is under twenty-one, the approval of parent or guardian. Preference will be given to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors...
...this sketch of "gentell" English life is a well-constructed variant of the untutored-person-in-high-society theme. In this case, the son of the house has become engaged to the very attractive daughter of a deceased bookmarker, and his ingenious mother invites the girl and her "designing" parent to Deynham so that her son may see by contrast the short-comings of his bride-to-be. From the opening scene of general consternation in which the rector's wife remarks that "In times like these, a visit is often most helpful"-the times in question being births, deaths...
...column, which appears in a well-known Boston newspaper, the "Bright Sayings of Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books...