Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the sort of piece which is usually identified with the word "charming". That is what grandma would have called it, and grandma is sure to get a big treat out of "Just Fancy". So are you, if the producers will only cut out a few of the more tedious passages...
Colonel W. K. Naylor will discuss the battle of the Marne in a lecture to be delivered in Room 110, Pierce Hall, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Colonel Naylor is among the foremost of the army historians and lecturers, having devoted much of his time to this sort of activity. "The Marne Miracle" is illustrated by lantern slides that show the successive situations leading up to the frustration of the German effort in 1914 almost at the gates of Paris...
Apparently the type of practical jokers represented by those who cut down the Lampoon tree is at large again. This sort of thing is a little too obvious for even the more violent or sportive Klansmen to undertake. The joy of mystifying others is a great incentive to such blood-and-thunder tricks. The pleasure of seeing one's deeds acknowledged, even anonymously, and of causing annoyance and perhaps anxiety appeals to some. All in all, it is illogical to expect any bombs or poisoned daggers; in spite of which, the Liberal Club is enabled to uphold its reputation...
President Holt's basis of reasoning is sound; but his method of applying it is weak. This sort of training belongs in secondary schools; when it is employed in college, its arbitrary nature is opposed to the very independence and completeness of education at which it aims...
WRITTEN in a biographical age notable chiefly for its iconoclasm, "Kit Carson" is just the sort of book one would expect from a former Rhodes Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...