Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing in a medley of moods, Author Raucat places the reader behind each of his characters in turn. The result is a set of complete reactions?everyone's viewpoint is defined. Mildly mocking, Author Raucat describes the festivities surrounding the arrival of the European at the pleasure resort. Says the stationmaster: "As a favor to my guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then...
That Vassar, the resort of New York collegiate femininity, prided itself forty years ago on being a family college with a distinctive home atmosphere is evident from an article in the "Harvard Herald" of May 4, 1883. In that issue appears a dispatch, apparently from the "Herald's" Poughkeepsie correspondent, on outlining the delights and drawbacks of social life at the feminine academy on the Hudson...
Stoking coal on an ocean steamship has commonly been regarded as one of the least attractive of all occupations--the sword that hangs over the head of stowa ways who are caught, the last resort of those who are bent on working their way to Europe by any means. The English girls who, bored on her passage to America, asked permission to work the full length of the voyage as a stoker, has set a precedent, not the least amazing feature of which is that her request was granted. Dressed in overalls, she wielded the shovel for nine days...
...this day of highly-organized alumni associations and million dollar endowment funds, the discovery that in raising funds for the erection of Stoughton and Holworthy Halls it was necessary to resort to lotteries is of considerable interest...
Thoroughly angered, Mr. Reed advanced toward Mr. Robinson, replied: "An insinuation is the last resort of a coward. The Senator has referred to me several times as venerable. I hope I am at least respectable. But the Senator neither here nor elsewhere need take my years into account...