Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cosmopolitan group of 685 students enrolled in the School, 175 colleges, American and foreign, are represented by their graduates. Harvard holds first honors with 104. Leland Stanford, 3,000 miles away, is second with 28; Dartmouth with 22 leads by a slender margin Yale and Princeton with 21 each. The University of Kansas follows with 14, then comes Williams and the University of Wisconsin with 11 each, followed by the University of Virginia, with...
ALONG THE ROAD?Aldous Huxley?Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still...
...Story. Dark, slender Gita Cartaret of Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
Tong wars begin quickly, kindled by rivalry between two rich tea- merchants for the favors of one of those slender concubines that so vividly people the imaginations of sightseers; by a trade jealousy; a stolen opium shipment; in short, by almost any obscure betrayal of Oriental honor. Once begun, they are conducted on a system much re- sembling that which governs the game of chess. The purpose of each side is to wipe out the important leaders of the other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...