Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsuccessful Presidential campaign!. . . Agriculture realized the moral and economical wrong of Slavery and joining with Business it created the Republican party. I feel that there is again a crisis and unless this partnership [Agriculture & Business] is maintained now, the candidate named at Kansas City will have a hard road to travel...
...Will he never grow up?" wondered Britons when they learned, last week, that Edward of Wales, 33, had slipped off like an Eton schoolboy to the new Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in Marylebone Road.† There His Royal Highness promenaded for an hour unrecognized, viewed an excellent dummy likeness of himself, and was finally detected by a knowing urchin while he lingered in the Chamber of Horrors...
Gaunt from wretched diet, toothless from scurvy, the cynical oldsters were right that escape was not so certain. Six weary years dragged themselves out: lumberjacking or road-building under armed guards, restless hours in prison, philosophising, swearing, gambling for "mômes," the girlish boys who were possessed by carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across...
...tuxedos. It will demand and assume a voice in the argument. This contingency will heighten the competition between the two teams by swelling the ranks of the opposition. If something of the intercollegiate flavor is lost by thus admitting the commoner, the gain is a notable one, along the road leading to the conception of debate as an exercise followed not entirely for its own sake, nor solely as a means to clarification of ideas, but for its forceful powers of conviction--the only purpose of any polemic...
Among the plays which may be given by the college dramatists are listed "The Dover Road," by A. A. Milne, "The Torch Bearers," by George Kelley, "The Mosque of Venice," by George D. Gribble, "Beyond the Horizon," by Eugene O'Neill. The modern dress version of "The Taming of the Shrew," presented by the Dramatic Club last spring, will again be given this summer, with the same students carrying the lead roles. In addition, "Open Collars," a prize-winning play written by Erik Barnouw, of Princeton, may be presented...