Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference which has, for the past three months, been sitting in Peking to consider the means of reunifying China was dissolved last week. Intelligence concerning the deliberation of the conference has been scant, apparently because there has been nothing significant to report. The main result of the conference is the calling of a "citizens' conference which is to report to a commission appointed to draw up a new constitution." But with Tuchun* flying at the throat of Tuchun, and no Tuchun strong enough to rule the others, the mere thought of a constitution seems as out of place...
When the cameras had been set up, the chairs placed, and the steps of the Widener Library marked off yesterday in preparation for the pictures of the Senior and Freshman classes, the setting was complete but for one item, the Senior class. For only a scant two score of Seniors came bashfully through the Yard, in newly donned caps and gowns to observe the time-honored custom of the picture. The others were deterred from attending by the noxious mists and the threatened rain...
...better bestowed. Tenor Hayes is an artist of the first rank. Born in Curryville, Ga., his mother a freed slave, he worked as a stove-molder, sang in a church choir, was encouraged to train his voice. At first, because of the incredible prejudice against his race, he received scant attention in the U. S. He went to Europe, toured England triumphantly, sang before King George in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Oct. 8, 1923), conquered hostile audiences in Germany, returned to the U. S., where it was then admitted that his voice is exquisite in texture, resonant, powerful, dextrously trained; that...
There is a book, of course, the work of J. C. Murphy '25, and W. S. Martin '26. It is a good book as Pudding books go; that is, it writes a plot to fit a scant collection of people, and a most attractive equipment of scenery, and the number of trick doors in the set, and the numbers and specialties in the score, and keeps its head and its temper through all this wrestling, occasionally cocking a humorous eye up at its assailants with a line like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates...
WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...