Word: quaile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding '30, J. K. Heard '30, and R. F. Quail '30 will be the speakers, and L. F. Hess sp, will act as alternate. The debate will take place at 8 o'clock in the Lampson Lyceum at New Haven...
...debating platform Friday evening against Yale in the first debate of the year, it was announced yesterday by J. M. Swigert '30, president of the Harvard Debating Council. The speakers will be J. F. Harding '30, J. K. Hurd '30, L. F. Hess, Sp. and R. F. Quail...
...disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush handles. President Coolidge has raised the tariff on such important commodities as wheat, butter, pig iron...
...sales; the American Galleries, which was started in the early 80's and thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
...case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire...