Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious matter was the late famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain's daily practice of appearing in the House of Commons wearing an orchid. This extravagant tradition, though abandoned by his son Sir Austen Chamberlain, now Foreign Secretary, is still staunchly upheld by Sir Harry Brittain, M. P., who was chairman of the British Hospitality Committee for U. S. officers in London during...
...Lampoon rarely demands reflection on the part of its readers. Its accustomed function is to amuse, to satirize, even to irritate, but seldom to provoke serious thought. Beneath the parody surface of the current "Protest of the Masses" number, however, there is much that can neither be ignored nor dismissed with an indulgent shrug...
...from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such names as "Shock-Haired" and "Serious-Face". They will wonder if they realty said what he says they said...
...last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento, in which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...
...start of the present crew season, the problem of coxswains is more serious than has been the case during the last few years. There are two reasons for this. In the first place there are no men in college with coxing experience on any University crews inasmuch as the University and Second crew coxes were both Seniors last year. In the second place, there are no experienced stroke oars available, since the graduation of Captain Watts of last year's crew leaves a gap that will have to be filled by a man without four-mile experience. The problem...