Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore). If you study this title carefully and reverse it, you will find that it is not unfamiliar. This current Cinderella is a slavey, wins a beauty contest, becomes a picture star. Her sweetheart is an ice man. Many old quips are kneaded in, even the one about growing sick over a cigar. This is the kind of picture that makes serious supporters of the cinema frantic; and the kind of picture that makes much money. Miss Moore is, as usual, excellent...
Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls. He reported "sharps and lawyers, prune and tame; Jew pioneers in Buffalo"; and journalists "sick...
Even student concern with the curriculum, the late development in the student movement, is largely a following of academic leadership. President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call...
...openhearted young New Englander, steeped in Vergil, enters their midst, to find that their innocent schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting that he is among current incarnations of the Olympians, the young American constitutes himself their Mercury?messenger, confidant, historian?setting down their biographies and a few episodes...
...what, last week, did Paderewski rise from a sick...