Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard is singularly free from the evils the report deplores, and may smile at the manifest absurdity of attempts to promulgate special beliefs under the guise of dispensing truth. But if Harvard has escaped, it is no less true that many American colleges and universities have not; and their plight is a matter of national concern...
...causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal mourning will reign, for one-fourth...
...present has grown much too blase to do anything but yawn when confronted with the wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...
Since Salome's time, many a man has lost his head over a pretty pair of legs and a smile. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that Columbia oarsmen have turned to the ballet during the tedious winter months. Tank rowing is said to be a terrible grind. And who is better qualified to develop rhythm and form than a Ziegfeld beauty...
...smile of amusement and indulgence was the only answer of members of the University R. O. T. C. staff to the criticism of their organization by Norman Thomas in an interview printed in yesterday's CRIMSON...