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...university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer a requirement for social success in the university...
...agreement is a signpost to international cooperation, a light along the gloomy path of world relations. Handled delicately and sensibly it may lead, eventually, to a redistribution of gold and a return to the gold standard. Here, at last, is something to look forward to, not with foreboding, but with hope...
...certainty. Mencken himself, modestly disclaiming any clairvoyance on the subject, sticks stoutly to his factual report on what the American language has been and now is, but thinks American the coming tongue. Calling himself a lay brother, "surely no philologian," he intimates that his book is but a temporary signpost, serving its turn until the completion of such monuments-in-progress as Sir William Craigie's Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (begun in 1926 at the University of Chicago, now well under way).* For The American Language, though it lists a vocabulary of 12,000 terms...
...shots across the U. S. border. The track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...
...Ambassador Harvey, who is about to retire, unveiled a picturesque signpost commemorating the wives of William Penn and John Harvard, given to the villagers of Ringmer in Sussex by Lady Demetriadi, who is a descendant of William Penn's first wife, a daughter of Sir William and Lady Springett of Ringmer. At the unveiling ceremony Mr. Harvey said: " To the motorist it is far more advantageous in a material sense to have a signpost pointing the way even to London than a monument showing that somebody has gone to Heaven." This moved his cheerful audience to laughter...