Word: sirene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy of discovery. By and large those who eat do not study hard, and those who would study hard apparently do not eat and thus lack the corpus sanum necessary to the mens sana. But nobody who recognizes that Memorial Hall now stands with outstretched clammy arms, singing siren songs to "foodless" Harvard, can think that there are not places enough...
...President Cosgrave returned to Dublin from the assembly in Geneva. Scenes of indescribable enthusiasm took place at Kingstown Harbor. The mail boat on which Mr. Cosgrave traveled was escorted by two Free State craft, four aeroplanes. In the Harbor every ship was gaily decorated with bunting and sounded its siren as the mail steamer hove in sight...
...Fleet speeding southward, bound from San Francisco to the San Diego base; 20 knots speed. Suddenly the leading boat struck the rocks, then the next, the next, the next. . . Seven were aground, piled on the rocks and beach, neatly at intervals of about 250 feet. The Delphy's siren warned the other twelve from the rocks...
...Heart Raider. Agnes Ayres proceeds through this picture as a society siren against whose heart of gold other hearts, of lesser, masculine metal, shatter themselves by scores. Then one day in walks a misogynist. On board his yacht heart-of-gold meets heart-of-iron...