Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significant of Papal willingness to cooperate in the furtherance of human rectitude, was the drawing up and presentation to the Italian Chamber, last week, by a Roman Catholic Deputy of a new law vigorously suppressing pornography and salaciousness of every sort, on the stage, on the cinema, newspapers, books, phonograph records, paintings, sculpture, advertisements...
Secondly, a certain amount of work in public speaking is offered in the English department. This involves the preparation and delivery of speeches, a useful form of English composition. It involves, also, discovering and, if possible, correcting defects in the use of the voice, Work of this sort is useful as a preparation in after life...
...difficulty is diametrically opposite. One M. Vantel, writing in "Cipano" finds that cook and dentist, nouveaux and clerk are all wearing the Legion of Honour. The Legion, it seems has become no more exclusive than a Long Island home site or a Miami country Club. M. Vantel suggests a sort of suicide by which members of the legion will voluntarily retire "for the glory of France." Or they might draw lots, or play eenie-meenie-minie...
...matter of fact--as in most matters of this sort--the truth probably lies between the two: which should not, however, prohibit any vagabond from attending Professor Parker's lecture on the subject at 10 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room...
...think it hot, today? You should feel it in Calcutta! Most people last only five years in India. That was the length of my appointment?long enough! For my duty as Advocate General of Bengal was to act as a sort of personal court of final appeal. Perhaps the greatest single problem which cropped up to face me was whether or not to prosecute Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Will you gentlemen have more...