Word: recollections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross...
...Pollux last night chuckling softly over a newspaper item which reported Bishop Manning's refusal to allow the Lutherans to use the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for a great Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...
Said Bishop Manning: "So far as I can recollect, I know of no such person." But others knew her, including ex-Dean Robbins, to whom she left $350,000 in trust, and Dr. Henry Vane Beams Darlington of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, whither she went from the Cathedral. His church received $25,000 and he $1,000 for burying her. Other friends recalled that she had two prejudices: one against dogs & cats indoors, the other against Friday, the thirteenth. She died Friday...
...Recall it to my mind iffen ever I forget, Philly. Recall it to my mind how I stood, my hand up in the air for a strong oath, iffen ever the kettle is opened and some is taken out, one piece of equal kind goes to God. Make me recollect I promised." Philly said she would, but allowed she could not pledge herself to make...
...English historians can recollect that cheeky remarks have been made in the House of Commons immemorially by the Irish Wintertons, the First Lord Winterton having been ennobled by Charles II after being forced to resign from the House of Commons for his "confounded, quarrel some impudence...