Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature and salubrity of a room to suit them selves may possibly be blameworthy for their disregard of the health and comfort of others. These things have been said before, and it is our purpose to refute such cruel and groundless insinuations. We are informed. . . .that the purpose in keeping the windows closed is to prevent the escape...
...great shock, therefore, when in the last five minutes of the play the designing "Mrs. Borridge" bursts forth, in the pressence of her intended victims, in a tirade-against her daughter for not "getting something on paper" which might serve as evidence in a breach of promise suit. The scene is pure farce of the most extravagant kind and tolerably funny. But it is in keeping neither with the character of the shrewd fortune-hunting woman nor with the tone of the play as a whole. The closing speech where Lady Remenham, a close friend of the family, on being...
...answer states that the University has not funds enough to buy so many books. The Library, judging by the present, is stocked to suit the angler in research: Those who wish for the ordinary text books in the more popular courses must buy them, or read for an hour at a time the single copy provided by the University's appropriation and reserved in the Main Reading Room. In most courses, it is true, there are other copies, but their number depends entirely on the generosity of individuals. None of the money set aside by the University...
Miss Lindsay, a Grenfell Mission worker, was teaching school at Cartwright, Labrador, a village some fifty miles south of Indian Harbor, where I was spending the summer. Thus I happen to know the facts in the case. She left one morning, with her bathing suit, saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that...
...daily papers. The opiate, the unsigned Treaty of Sevres which was intended to mark the end of the Turk in Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance of Alexander lay within their reach, as legitimate recompense for their efforts in the cause of peace. Severely...