Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Along with the more subtle purposes for which the new remedy is designed goes the important practical one of giving the student reading of a general sort to supplement the lectures. A great real is to be said in favor of this plan. At present the lectures and the reading cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel...
Debate. For several days the chief Cabinet Ministers and Premier Baldwin hammered home these revelations, not seeming quite to realize that they were only "proving" the sort of thing which most British and U. S. businessmen have unshakably believed about the Soviets for half a decade. There was nothing new, and nothing especially terrifying. How then were these stale "proofs" worthy to justify the new and drastic course of breaking off relations...
...grotto Ludwig made an unmitigated curse. He thought, or pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...
...been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort of an organization is better than sitting in an office, trying to do the other fellow. . . ." This retort has had the approval of the sophisticated New York World, which said: "The Rotarian is not without his points." And does not President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin write...
From the hinterlands and the outskirts come ladies of one-sort and the other sort to have their pictures taken by loving cavaliers. And they come on Sunday afternoons. Hour after hour old John sits behind these giggling groups of visitors (one hopes they are all visitors) and watches them at their sport. Thus does he lose his rest--and, occasionally, for beauty is not always rouge deep, his appetite...