Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deplored, however, is the prominence given to Harvard as a woman's college; it is this sort of thing that works more harm than it affords amusement. Internal criticism of whatever nature is always permissible, but amusing oneself at the public expense of others is particularly bad taste. A case in point is the memorable Lampoon issue of last fall embodying what the editors thought legitimate humor. In the Tiger it would have been, but that would have been a laughing with rather than at. The Daily Princetonian...
...from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...Office documents which it was thought might be found there. If this request was made, the raid was technically legal under the Defense of the Realm Act of 1911; but the only possible justification for it in public opinion would be the finding of startlingly incriminating documents of some sort...
...solved. . . . In the battle between the newspaper and the weekly or monthly magazine, the magazine has already suffered defeat. The magazine of today is merely an agreeable survivor of the past. . . . Besides, more and more advertisable things are ever being created for the daily newspaper, metamorphosing it into a sort of magic bazaar filled with purchasable wonders...
...newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, of a darkling and somewhat chilly New England, singing the two Isolts...