Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post, always serious on social matters, declared venomously: "A bull-headed Vice President goaded by an ambitious woman can stir up all kinds of a mess. . . . Mrs. Gann is not set in the seats of the mighty by decree of her own country but by the amused complaisance of courteous foreigners. Will this memory spoil the fun of the Vice Presidentess as she looks down from the head of one of those jolly-diplomatic dinners, past six frozen-faced ambassadresses, to where her unrated husband hides at the foot of the board? . . . We devoutly hope...
...recent issue of the CRIMSON carried on the front page this heading: Pound Defends Case System. These expressions therein quoted are hardly strong enough to support the connotations of the term "defense". The case is more serious than that. They imply an unawareness of the need for a defense...
This first major outbreak of the Forum since its divorce from the Baptist Social Union was very self-conscious over the dangers of being too serious about its program of reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion...
...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...
...starting up the Bisley matches again, now the War's over," said the son of an N. R. A. official shortly after the Armistice. "Yes, of course," replied the father, ''but we can't expect many good scores. There hasn't been any really serious shooting since the War began...