Word: pre-war
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While Harvard was beating Yale by many touchdowns in the years just before the way Harvard was lucky to beat Princeton on more than one occasion. Of these pre-war games the 1911 defeat was one of the most exciting games ever played. The Harvard team was lined up on the right side of the field planning a drop-kick but failed to protect the drop-kicker, Paul Hollister '14, sufficiently, and Hart, Princeton's captain-end, who was playing with a broken neck, blocked the kick. White picked up the ball, and won the game by an 80 yard...
Cognoscenti complain as cognoscenti will. All is not flawless at the Metropolitan Opera House. There are many weaknesses. Excellent ensembles, a good German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures?these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there...
...utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will go too if he persists, the absolute breach between the pre-war generation and the post-war becomes only too apparent and it is the significance of this breach that Major Gibbs then drives home. He terms it "the meaning of No Man's Land." "When...
Presumably the courts will hold that the Doctor is no swindler be cause he supports the Dawes Plan-as the least of many possible evils-and has therefore contributed to the total devaluation of the pre-War paper mark and its replacement by the new gold mark...
...audiences abroad have deteriorated in quality. The cultured classes, which formed the backbone of the pre-War musical public, have but little money at present for concerts or opera. The rather nondescript audiences of today seem to lack the discrimination which, combined with warm enthusiasm for really fine things, formerly lent such an ideal atmosphere to musical performances abroad. "It is sad-immeasurably...