Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then the Republican and the Democratic caucuses after some internal bickering will agree to them. The Ways and Means Committee will at last make two reports to the House, a majority (Republican) and a minority (Democratic) report. Then for several days the House will argue, and finally some sort of bill, probably with a number of compromises, will be agreed to and sent to the Senate. In the Senate the bill will be sent to the Committe on Finance, there redebated, re-amended and reported out again, probably in two forms, Republican and Democratic. Again there will be argument...
...been translated into English, he conveys to his audience the emotions of a man torn between two loves, one for a dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second...
Death, some think, is a sort, of recitation-an "unseen" that you have been trying to spot through a somewhat rowdy study-hour. Whether you know anything or not, you have to stand up. Last week the grim Master of Headmasters called on Francis H. Tabor, head of St. Bernard's School, Manhattan...
...editors have placed a wide variety of reading matter at the disposal of the members of Harvard University, and it is to be hoped, of a wider audience. No one may rightly complain that his literary preference has been neglected. If one likes poetry--these is poetry of sorts in this Advocate; there is also some of the other sort. If one's preference is biography--he finds in this number a passage from the life of a little-known New York patriot of pre-Revolutionary times. There is also fiction--one very good story, and two others which...
...rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave it, with all his load of learning clinging to his soul, when his natural days are ended...