Word: swains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That telegraph officials say, the same number of forgetful Harvard men do every time St. Valentine's day rolls around. Armed with machine-made sentiments of varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...
...commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the late President Eliot, which will come in March, the February issue of the Harvard Teachers' Record will be devoted to him, it was announced yesterday by Charles Swain Thomas, editor of the Record...
Courtship Itch. Dr. William Waddell Duke of Kansas City cited the case of a heat-sensitive swain who feared making love to his sweetheart because every time he caressed her he had an itching attack, and was obliged to scratch. Contrariwise, cold makes certain sensitive individuals restless. Surrogated Dr. Duke: "It's extremely unfortunate if a husband is cold sensitive and his wife heat sensitive. He feels good if he's active, and the same thing makes her feel...
...with the Cherrells. has fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma...
...Donaldson's "A Sentimental Journey" is a clever bit, in which smart young people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry formula, and the reader struggles to accept the formula so that he may enjoy the effect...