Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past the general feeling that Harvard has turned away from the Boston colleges athletically has not lacked foundation. Together with the more frequent appearance of the colleges over the river in the lists of Harvard's opponents lately, the conferences are significant of a somewhat closer understanding in the realm of sports between the University and its neighbor institutions...
...bank for princes of the Church and great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...
...Radical Socialists in the Chamber. Naturally he expected their support, proceeded with confidence to round up his personal following which lies a little further to the right, finally sought the weighty aid of great Aristide Briand, a statesman supposed to be above party because of his achievements in the realm of Peace...
...unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...
...border of insanity; the tortured hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest to the realm of a disciplined and central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with...