Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Characters. At the Front, frenzied and weary men lose their individuality, but those who stay at home reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
...Hollywood, an insurance company hired agents to get information on the morals of cinema people applying for policies. Those intimate with the wives, husbands of others, those who patronize bootleggers, stay up late, were recently refused policies as bad risks...
...case of the Harvard-West Point game the opportunities for informal contact between any large numbers of the visitors and those who are nominally their hosts are strictly limited both by military rule and the shortness of the Army's stay. Virtually the only means of contact between the men of the two institutions is that afforded by the welcoming committee. Those in charge of this years group have wisely planned for an unusually large committee, a provision which should make for much greater informality and flexibility than the old plan of assigning...
...fact that undergraduate feeling, in general as well as in the particular instance of football, is almost universally grossly misinterpreted must be taken into consideration. Students seldom reach the heights of enthusiasm about anything, and they never stay on those heights for long. Whatever minor evils it causes as a temporary distraction, football certainly does not have and never can have a great enough hold on the undergraduate permanently to warp his point of view or seriously to interfere with his education...
...Youth of the poet. School of Port-Royal. Stay at Uzes. First essays...