Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the issue of the 29th and April 5. This is a rather difficult letter for me to write, because I've felt on so many occasions out of sympathy with many of the ideas and attitudes of your paper. But it's only fair, I am sure, on my part to let you know that I think it's the best of its kind in existence. HORACE B. LIVERIGHT...
...spring recess is unwelcome. Anything would be welcome after Cambridge at this gusty indecisive season of the year; but the certainty that it is coming, that it will be like previous spring vacations, that it will not even have the opportunity to be at a different time is sure to emasculate its pleasing qualities. A constructive suggestion might not be out of place. Let Olympus keep its own counsel in the matter until a day or so before the bomb is to burst; then let the ukase be issued with all the fanfare of trumpets and headlines that it deserves...
...What's more than that--if you insist on something more--his lady dancing partner, Mr. Courtland Gross, is almost as good. We don't know where Gross learned to dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters swear that he has improved his last year's performance about 100 per cent. Figures talk. On that basis, the figure...
...Gates '27, and C. T. F. B. lyon '27. This pair, as the henpecked husband and the nagging wife, sling some gags that will make your hair curl, and exude one song, "Life Is No Bed Roses" that, in the words of one of the Graduates' Night audience, is "sure fire...
...Chase reflected upon these problems or is he aware of then existence? Hardly. He still thinks that "Hatrack" has a special appeal to man's lower passions. And I am sure that the listeners who laughed up their sleeve while he read his "Credo" of "New Paritanism" had a pity for the man and his ignorance, especially when he was staggering to answer, why, to his mind, the Macfadden publications were not as harmful as is the American Mercury. Why that man and those who are backing him are simply one hundred and fifty years behind their time. A. Phillipoff...