Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing unusual about the plot of "They Knew What They Wanted". Sidney Howard has used a none too unique form of the well-known triangle and has contrived to capture some sort of a happy ending by providing a magnanimous husband; a courageous wife, and a good-hearted "other man". But what distinguishes the play, as far as it can claim distinction, is something else again...
...custom than a grand mistake. Not one effort is made, except for those futile flairs of comradle which the Union attempts, to make them appreciate the comfort which is associated with a true Harvard existence, that comfort bred of being with active minds in social intercourse of that sort so much the heritage of the college proper...
Obviously, Miami was in the "dangerous semi-circle." Key West received the "navigable semi-circle," therefore was damaged inconsiderably. After striking Miami from the northeast, the hurricane made a sort of quarter-turn on its heel, proceeded northwesterly over the Gulf after passing out to sea near Tampa...
Said the London Evening Standard: "So long as we persist in thinking that there is some sort of link between them [the two countries], so long will some of us persist in using that language of frank and familiar rebuke which (however mistakenly) is supposed to be proper between relatives. If we could bring ourselves to think of America as a great foreign power with which we are on friendly terms, but which expects to be treated and will treat us just like another foreign power, then these troubles might be avoided...
...short, be a sentimental idiot. But there are many such idiots, enough to have filled the CRIMSON ranks in the past; enough po doubt, to fill them in the future. It is not necessary to exhort undergraduates to try for the CRIMSON; those with a taste for the sort of adventure which CRIMSON work offers will appear at the meeting Wednesday night as matter of course. Others will do better to stay away...