Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appetizer potent enough to make any Yale breakfast tasty. If you add to that juicy morsel the piece de resistance of an immediate cash bonus disbursement for all persons under thirty-six, this being the reading period surprise of the Great White Father, and then dump both sweet essences into the arms of full-blooded Yale men, any Bolshevist will admit that you've got the makings of a dirty-bourgeois bombshell...
...advocate peace may appear increasingly gratuitous, and yet the mounting feeling that something more definite than pious whisperings, like the sweet nothings of current United States neutrality legislation, should be accomplished deserves every opportunity for expression...
...Little Lord Fauntleroy," with Freddle Bartholemew, C. Aubrey Smith, capable supporting cast, the audience watches Freddie win the heart of his grandfather--the Lord Dorincourt and everyone else in the cast. Freddie is an unusually talented actor and performs his part, which is sweet and sickly anyway, creditably. You wince every time he calls his mother "Dearest," however, and only in several happy scenes where the old Lord figures are you relieved from monotonous and nerve-racking demonstrations of sorrow. The straight story in "Little Lord Fauntleroy," as a matter of fact, is strongly reminiscent of the burlesque melodrama...
Thence, this day to seek the sweet tradition. So as a Vagabond I to dress, very handsome, in mousey grey trousers, new ascot to match, and glad was the woman to fetch the cutaway: "Not in a year has it been out", and so with shining topper and swinging stick, I to church and my cloak blowing in the breeze...
...high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen...