Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven Bears and the Cleveland Athletic Club. More than half of its engagements, eight in all, were crowded into the Christmas recess, when the squad journeyed first to Cleveland and subsequently to Lake Placid. The Dartmouth and Williams stickmen were also passing their holidays at the winter resort, so that the Elis were well entertained...
...special investigators should have chosen this particular disguise to allay suspicion and to coax hidden beverages from their secret places. But if this practice continues, and the faith of restaurant owners is repeatedly betrayed by masquerading detectives, the college man will be driven to a last and desperate resort. His final remedy will be, of course, to return the compliment and disguise himself as a "rum hound"" which as Donald Ogden Stewart says, is easily done by tucking the ends of one's necktie under the points of one's collar...
...useless method of solving the world's difficulties. Sooner of later, the real difficulties between men have to be settled by reason. War, even war in the last resort, merely postpones that reasonable settlement...
Since the announcement that the Hasty Pudding Club trip would include Hot Springs, news has come that two performances instead of one will be given at the resort. In all fourteen performances will be given, three in Cambridge, two in Hot Springs, one in Washington, one in Providence, and four in Boston...
...High Official of the Banque de France (speaking of the alleged ?AngloGerman attempt to drive France to inflation) : "This is a vain hope. To whatever measures France is obliged to resort in order to complete her reconstruction, she will never imitate Germany. France is a rich country, in full prosperity, and will find her way out of the present financial difficulties. The urgent thing to be done now is to prevent the people at home and abroad from speculating on those difficulties...