Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual dinners on the same night in different rooms of the same hotel or club-building in Boston, have often exchanged gifts of good will, sending committees of greeting the one to the other. Again, the alumni of different colleges have quite often united in joint assemblies of one sort and another. But it is difficult, if not impossible, to recall any instance when the grace of host-ship has been carried to the full and entire effectiveness which is planned for the night of Oct. 30. Quite certainly, as, between Harvard and Yale, the novelty of the idea...
...opening of colleges is just about the same sort of ceremony it was a half score years ago. The same carrying of desks, reading lamps, books and dismantled beds across the campi (he remembered the plural of campus), the same tendency to wear clothing that's a little ahead of the latest word, the some old greetings being shouted from windows and doorways and the same searching for gullible freshmen on whom to practice the same old jokes...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
...questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little enough to ask ? after such a luncheon. Unanimously the guests voted as Host Briand wished?a mere gesture, but without something of the sort there could never begin to be a "United States of Europe...
...strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise...