Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with the governess, Miss Pinney,--"the most spiritual-minded woman...
...wait painfully upon himself, no longer will the spacious halls be desecrated by Waldorlian self-service--he has but to touch an ivory button--or is it mother-of-pearl?--and a page will bear to him the article desired, be it a package of chewing-gum, or--bitter-sweet reminder of past glories--lemonade and water! Well may the shades of the Puritan stand agape; well may the Blue Sunday advocates hold forth; the finesse of Greece and the luxury of Rome have descended upon Cambridge...
...other, John Halliday, a sort of intellectual Major Dobbin, equally in love with her, must be content to worship from afar. Anne, as a bride of 17, is not willing to become prematurely a sedate matron; she starts out to live her life in her own sweet way. But finally, after she has had her share of trouble and excitement--after she has been separated from her husband and has lost her only child--come reconciliation and a humbling of her somewhat selfish will...
...weight events, Speers, who won fifth place in the intercollegiate hammer-throw, Sweet, Halsey and Thompson are the Tiger entries. The Princeton team is especially strong in the middle distance runs, with W. L. L. Adams, former interscholastic champion in the quarter and half-mile, W. L. Stevenson and F. L. Murray...
...Princeton Athletic Association, and a trainer. Members of the team will be: Captain C. R. Erdman, S. Harrison Thompson, R. D. Clark, W. E. Stevenson, F. L. Murrey, W. L. L. Adams, G. A. Trowbridge, R. M. McCulloch, Allan Swede, C. D. Halsey, D. B. Lourie, C. F. Sweet, R. F. Cleveland and J. C. Speers...