Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relieve this serious situation, to get U. S. smoke to U. S. smokers in France, the Government of Premier Raymond Poincare issued, last week, a wise decree. Hereafter, during the U. S. tourist season, special credits will be extended to small dealers by the State Tobacco Monopoly, thus enabling them to stock...
...concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball or basketball game, or other physical exhibition, we would have turned thousands away. But here we have a group of children doing a serious work marvelously and our auditorium is less than half filled. . . . I want you to tell all your friends that I consider it a shame that Cleveland hasn't filled this auditorium for this occasion...
...stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain time "because the signs of the Zodiac will be favorable then." Was he joking? Or was he serious...
...SERIOUS...
Such of us as departed for Cambridge last week-end with the prepossession that it is a fastness of solemn serenity and serious sobriety returned in another persuasion. Our ancient rivals opened their hearts and larders to us in no uncertain fashion. It is a great place. The traditional intellectuality of Harvard seems to have reached that point in its life cycle which is best characterized by the cant term of decadent. They are over the peak. Their manners and personal graces are those of the Restoration, their collective temperament a shade in the direction of Baudelaire. A more charming...