Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire counsel for both sides to get together this morning, right now, and arrive at an agreement of some sort or other which will, when the Court reconvenes, permit this case to proceed as speedily as possible to a conclusion. Locate these witnesses and begin today to do it. Use the telegraph, the radio or the cable, but get them, and if what they know is admissible, prepare them for the witness chair...
...great many healthy young women from country towns have chirped and kicked, at one time or another, in the annual musical revues of Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld-so many, in fact, that the "Ex-Follies Girl" now has the weight of "Ph. D." or "Elk": it connotes membership in a sort of national oddfellows' society...
...past years the Dramatic Club has conformed admirably with the requirements of modern drama. The execution of Mr. Dos Passos scenes last year was exceedingly good. Perhaps the best work of this sort was done two years ago in 'The Life...
Tonight's mass meeting is the first outdoor affair of the sort which has been held at the University in many years. Consequently when the plans for the meeting were being made, the problem of lighting arrangements was at first a serious one. It was discovered, however, that Ralph W. Robert, the defeated candidate for Mayor of Cambridge, had on hand a large supply of red fire, which arrived too late for use in his campaign and which he was glad to dispose of at cost, as the next mayoral election does not occur for two years. The purchase...
...subject for this first debate, far from being a metaphysical question for abstract reasoning, calls for the sort of treatment in which witty sallies and spirited repartee have a prominent place. "Resolved: That Harvard Should Be More Collegiate" is a subject which should bring out all the champions of Harvard Orthodoxy in defense of traditional indifference. The affirmative side, likewise, should have a numerous representation, and they might very properly enliven the evening by appearing dressed for their part in artistically decorated yellow slickers, stick candy hat bands and great-necked campus sweaters...