Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces of the Salvation Army invaded New York's Greenwich Village, to convert the wayward inhabitants. The attacking army consisted of a single old gentleman armed with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend the truly Christian spirit of Major Harvey who merely smiled...
...favorite comic strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
...Mothers: 32 Children. In Russia no practical distinction is made between children born in or out of wedlock and either sort have legal claim to paternal support. Theoretically the Russian law is a sharp curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income...
...dramatics do not receive much training in acting that will be beneficial to them if they enter stage work later but the poise and elocution that is taught to them is something that is often lacking in actors that have gone on the stage without any training of this sort," explained E. F. Albee, philanthropist and head of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville theatres, in an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON "My advice to students is to stick to their studies more, but not to let the play side of their college life be entirely neglected...
...swimming pool, and this, alone, it has been estimated, will cost some $250,000. There seems to be no adequate reason, according to the architects, why this part of the building should not be erected first. The plans now in existence show that the swimming pool forms a sort of wing to the main athletic building, almost a separate building," though harmonizing in every way with the complete indoor plant...