Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon there will pass from Harvard in the throes of its mid-year period, going as silently as they came, those vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they...
...still is a beginning, however, and for the newspaper men, even more than the diary makers and occasional topers, it is a field day. The columnists and cartoonists have dusted off the old resolution jokes, and the editors have rolled up their sleeves to pass in review, summarize, compare, and prophesy. It seems that next year will be as prosperous as it always has been, and that lastyear was highly significant, which significance having been extracted, the twelve eventful months were canned, labelled, and put on a shelf...
...have been some what alloyed, it is now logical to expect that this factor will again come into prominence. A recent editorial in Osservatore Romano, the official mouthpiece of the Vatican, is reported as being an attack on Prohibition in the United States, a coincidence which will not pass unnoticed among those who are uneasy about the governor's ultimate allegiance. It is not unfortunate that Governor Smith is likely to be the means of bringing to issue the question that politicians have so long handled with gloves on, but it will be highly unfortunate if, when that issue...
...have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared the one wholesome, clean place where a man could go to get away from himself. But now engaged girls will pawn their rings, and go by taxi to save their name: old maids will feel temptations as they pass the exits: and the conductors will become introspective...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...