Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes a painful duty to speak of something which has been apparent ever since the rumpus over the Princeton number: What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice...
Among the most prominent applicants for the chorus are R. W. Turner '28, E. F. Gamache '27, and A. F. French Jr. '29, all first string football players. The chorus will be drilled in some of the intricate modern dance steps. The coaching staff announced that a premium will be put on beauty in the choice of singers and dancers athletic legs will play as insignificant a role as possible...
...evil wrought by flying will be incomparably greater than any benefit derived from it by mankind," declared Sir Hugh Frenchard, chief of the British Air staff recently. Professor Philip Baker of London University, a noted pacifist, used this statement as the basis for an address to a peace conference at York, England, several days ago. Professor Baker affirmed that Sir Hugh Frenchard had said to him that both military and civil aviation should be abandoned. This view of aerial development coming from a distinguished soldier and an experienced flyer has occasioned much comment...
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis and Major General John L. Hines, retired Chief of Staff† of the Army, announced their annual reports last week. Both stressed the fact that the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1920 had not been fulfilled, that the Army strength was waning dangerously. Significant points...
...Manhattan society matrons including Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Murray Crane, and having for its classroom, at fashionable three o'clock on Thursdays, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Editress Edna Woolman Chase and Miss Caroline Duer of the Vogue staff were announced as assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian was held pre-eminent by New York University authorities. Problems and topics to be treated by Publisher Nast and his assistants, with demonstrations by suitable models: the heavy woman, the elderly woman, good taste...