Word: pill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill-shunned by gamblers and now doomed by a Treasury committee. (P. 25.) Senator Smoot's defense of the sugar pill...
...PILL, a doctor. PILL-DRIVER, a peddling apothecary...
With voluntary chapel and the "Dean's list", both traditions here, we can look on at the war of words as patients to whom the pill has already been administered and who are "doing nicely, thank you". The place of respect which the chapel holds, and the continuing good scholarship of those once on the "Dean's List" as well as Its incentive toward better work, are enough to brave the wisdom of the University's liberalism. We are inclined to wonder with the Yale "News", if "perhaps Yale's authorities delight in cobwebs", since the faculty hesitates so long...
...child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter, as feebly trying to curry the student's favor...
...first glimpse, "The Lawbreaker" at the St. James promised to be a rather well-coated pill of conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...