Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate' who wrote the letter states may be all very true. . . . Harvard does need a new gymnasium, and she needs a library and a host of other things; Harvard has not enough money to take proper care of the buildings she now has. . . . Harvard has no fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found...
Democracy. A power greater in many ways than the Pope's was left in Brother Bramwell's hands. He could elevate or demote officers at will. He was sole trustee of all Army properties in England and Australia. By scribbling a name on a slip of paper he could nominate his successor...
...actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys. She sends them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated at a girl's finishing school in Kansas City; that she ran away to Chicago to be an actress, changed her name from Lucille Le Sueur to Joan Crawford after a magazine contest organized to pick a name...
...lame duck. When this does happen, it is usually because the Representative has aspired to higher office. Such is the case of the outstanding "lame duck" who will take his seat next week, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor-leader. Representative Garrett tried, unsuccessfully, to slip into the seat of Tennessee's Senator McKellar. Representative Tom Connolly, who will slip into the seat of Senator Mayfield after this session, might be called a three-legged duck...
...timorousness which the imminent feminine regime inspires has resulted in calling a convocation of the High Council, never before called, for January. There was serious talk of litigation to be begun if a woman-any woman-should be named on the slip of paper. The war cry was antifeminist...