Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fabulous adventures of Barbara Frietchie, who falls in love with Captain Trumbull, a "damn Yankee." For the purposes of the plot Barbara is transformed from the elderly dame of "shoot if you must this old gray head" fame to a winsome flaxen-haired flower of the South. Needless to say, her father opposes the marriage, sah, in which opinion he is supported by all the lads and lassies of the town who vilify Barbara as traitor, overlooking the fact that among their number are many able bodies young fellows who spend their time lounging around town instead of joining...
...made merely an extension of course control, and to be made too heavy to permit the honest performance of the required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them together, in completing the terminal essays--to say nothing of the tutorial assignments for the period. In order to make the transition gradual, however, strict course assignments are no doubt necessary...
...CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell the Managing Editor that his studies are getting a bit harder, and he won't have time for the CRIMSON, shake hands and departs. Or he may cancel his social engagements for the next nine weeks, say good-bye to his roommate, and start working. Surprisingly few, once they have passed the first few trying days, ever quit. They keep on trying until they either make the board or get cut; and if they get cut, they are more than likely to come out for the next competition...
Madonna & Child drew the greatest storm of rage and approval. By this more than life-size bronze (a splayfooted gawky peasant girl wiping her enormous hands on the flanks of a wretched skinny child), babbits were terrified. They said, one to another: "Well, I must say, I think it's blasphemous. Jesus looks positively Semitic! And when you remember the way Raphael painted the mother, it seems really shameful . . . the man must be an atheist!" Esthetes, on the other hand, became jubilant. "What strength," they murmured, "what superb nuance...
...life, spending money had been impossible for her. "She would dream of an immediate trip to Washington to buy fine things, such as new cloth for upholstering the furniture; then, by a natural impulse, she would touch the plush of the chair on which she sat and say to herself, 'But this is still very good.' " Her mother's arrival filled her with dread. "There was no true bond of affection between mother and daughter, and it is easy to surmise that they exchanged numerous letters before arriving at an agreement on a number of capital points...