Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletic supplies, but what are they to do? It may be reasonable to exclude them from the society of educated men, because listening to a monologue on the stockmarket is pretty painful punishment: but to criticise them for turning an honest dollar in the green goods business is just plain jealousy...
...devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...
...same time it was announced that Joseph Patrick Crosby '28 of Jamaica Plain will be the Tree Orator on Class Day. Charles Francis Fawsett Jr. '28 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was originally appointed to this office, but was compelled to give up the post because of unavoidable circumstances...
...assistant managership goes to Stuyvesant Barry '31, of Orange, N. J., also a graduate of St. Paul's Truman Hicks Brackett '31, of Jamaica Plain, who went to the Browne and Nichols School, will be 1931 cross country manager next fall, and Oliver Lawrence Garrison Elder '31, of St. Elmo, Tenn., an alumnus of St. Mark's School, is the interdormitory manager...
Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...