Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their opportunities. The spirit of hospitality that leaves doors invitingly open is admirable; but when the tenant is not in, it is wasted welcome. The turning of a key is not a difficult task, the carrying of the key is not a heavy burden either for memory or for pocket. Much difficulty can be avoided if students will follow the simple precept of locking doors and ground floor windows when they go out. Furthermore all suspicious individuals should be reported at once; and if any losses are discovered, no delay should be made in notifying police head quarters. Only...
...outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears...
Last year, about this time, learned astronomers were hitching vest-pocket Kodaks to rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion...
...Republic" is interesting if not entirely practical. Abolish all grades, all credits, all degrees. In their place substitute "real records" written reports of the student's accomplishment in each course. Then when the student is ready to leave, let him depart with a collection of these report in his pocket...
...head-liner at Keith's this week is a rather startling mind-reading act by Hope Eden, who diagnoses one's thoughts and prescribes remedies for one's ills. A close second for popularity is a pocket edition of the play "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," which offers numerous ludicrous situations and is ably acted. Herschell Henlere is an unusual pianist, in versatility and technique, and in his ability to put across his act. Vaudeville lovers recognize two old favorite in Emma Carus and Ben Welch; the latter, now totally blind, does a very funny impersonation. Several other acts, including some...