Word: sapless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the announcement was made, observers were at first shocked by what seemed the inadequacy of Senator Fess as a keynoter. To the casual-minded, he is just a bald, slightly weazened little man with a sapless voice, a sapless personality. He used to teach history at Ohio Northern University and the University of Chicago. He was President of Antioch College from 1907 to 1917. He rustles about in the Senate like a professor in an examination room, reminding heated debaters of the Senate rules, whispering concise answers and directions to his colleagues in the cloakroom. To have such...
...silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting: "Go away. Go to the kitchen. That is the place for women. You are talking rubbish when you are talking music. ..." The old woman sits down, begins to tap the floor with her long foot, thinking of Siegfried Wagner, sapless shoot of a strong tree, who went to the U. S. but failed to raise money for Bayreuth (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924); of the night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude...
...selling" the educational opportunities offered by the faculty, one of warning Freshmen to wear their green caps is not one that is reflective of such high ideals. It is on a par with all that is mean and laughable on Main Street. It is upon the rejection of this sapless philosophy, upon the conviction that the rising generation has a right to the respect which its intellectual and moral qualities can call forth, and upon the principles of Independence and Liberalism that the CRIMSON has attempted to build its editorial policy...