Word: shibboleths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Harvard Fund proves its value. For two years the money received through it has been turned over to the University with no questions, no restrictions. With each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...
...than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning of practically all the figures which tradition, sentiment, patriotism, and whatnot, had caused to be raised on pedestals...
...Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in musty covered tomes. Hoi Polloi...
...trust which has been offered to her. We must accept it as a pledge of our good faith in world affairs; and that the principles embodied in President Wilson's "fourteen points", and in other altruistic protestations of our purposes in entering the war, may not become a mere shibboleth...