Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who are wont to season the morning's meal with the Attic salt of the Vagabond brace themselves for a more pungent spice today. For this morning the Vagabond is not Touchstone but Hamlet; the cap and bells are put away, and sables are the wear. A great man is passing from our midst: at nine o'clock this morning in New Lecture Hall, Professor C. K. Webster is delivering his last lecture before leaving Harvard College, and the Vagabond would give him homage and Godspeed...
...handsomely strides in his new autobiography. For several years "Sandro" (the Grand Duke) and "Nicky" (the Emperor) lived with their wives in adjoining suites in the same palace. In Alexander's book, already a best seller, there are epic passages of solemn grandeur and there is enough spice to suit spice-hounds...
...ideas than by the democratic many for whom he spreads out a quantity of learning. But whether he is judged by the institution he created or by the friends he has made, it could be said of him as of Sir Christopher Wren : Si monnmentnm qnaeris, circum-spice...
...them all--magazines such as "The Harvard Advocate", the Yale and Princeton "Lits", The Williams "News" have bit by bit turned over many of their former functions to their younger compeers. No longer are they shot gun prescriptions for the undergraduate palate, mingling university bulletins, college news, bits of spice, athletic reviews and literary efforts. In an age of differentiation and and specialization it is no doubt better so. However, as these subsidiary activities have been placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less distracted to perform functions more important...
Danger makes life exciting. Aware of this, polo-players, who might not find it elsewhere, enjoy a spice of danger in their favorite game. But what about polo-players' wives, who understand the danger but cannot enjoy it? One such wife wrote a letter to Polo (monthly) suggesting a new rule: if a player, four minutes after a fall, is still unable to mount, he should be disqualified for the rest of the game...