Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luke, Yale '23: "Take studies too seriously, and do not take football, which is a serious subject, seriously enough...
...struggles of his childhood, the hardships of his early manhood, his growing success, and finally his great achievements culminating in the acquisition of an empire stretching from China to Arabia, could not fail to be interesting. Mr. Lamb's style, while not distinguished, is thoroughly adequate for the subject. It is fluent and easy to read, although the author has a rather distressing habit of omitting the verb from short sentences from time to time, a la francaise...
...book. They are all interesting, but are not, as a rule, strictly relevant to the text. In commenting on this fact and on the lack of substantiating footnotes, the reviewer is fully aware of the difficulty of obtaining authoritative matter strictly relevant to the particulars of the subject in hand. For it must be remembered that the Mongol of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were for the most part illiterate. Most of the contemporary accounts of Genghis Khan must be sought in works in Chinese and Persian...
...Lamb has given us a colorful and stirring account of the career of a great conqueror, and if we may criticize the lack of documentation, we must remember the intrinsic difficulty of the subject and be thankful for a thoroughly readable account of what in other hands might be a very heavy subject...
There is no trivial subject under the sun, from Japanese dressing gowns to Gilda Gray's hips, that is not recounted with considerable wit, and there are, besides, plenty of short quotations from famous authors, strewn through the days of the year--just the thing for the man who wishes to be the life of the party...