Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champagne. When news of this episode reached one Clayton Glyn, an eligible socialite old bachelor, he made up his mind that Elinor was the girl for him. She had not pictured Romance with silver hair (Glyn's was prematurely grey), but she admired his worldy ways, his perfect teeth, his "quaintly arrogant point of view." And she was 27. They married...
Harassed History students have long gnashed their teeth at the utter impossibility of correlating material for their general and special examinations. Professors have clucked their tongues sympathetically and suggested more intensive tutorial work. But tinkering with the tutorial system is a poor palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half...
...after quotation from the writings of expatriated aesthetes, intellectual dilettantes, and sycophantic snobs, Mr. Seldes revels in defending American culture. With a deft touch, which reveals Selders'' abilities as a social critic if not as an economic theorist, he hurls the vaporings of the effects back into their very teeth. American culture, like American political psychology, is boisterous, unashamed, and preeminently honest even about its faults. In this section of his book, Mr. Seldes proceeds with a confidence unfortunately lacking when he resurrects the shades of Harvard's own Turner...
Straight to her kidnapped husband rushed impulsive Mme Chiang and made him comfortable with a new set of false teeth she had brought in her purse. Next thing China knew, Generalissimo Chiang, Mme Chiang and Banker Soong all joined in sending the most positive orders to the Nanking Government that its forces under War Minister General Ho Ying-chin must not approach any nearer to Sian, and they halted in their tracks...
From "Twelve Tidbits" contains such items as "How old do you feel? Answer: Yes." "We sent a feature writer all the way to Rowayton, Connecticut, to interview John Tunis '11, and see if he wouldn't say something nice about our Class too. Found old John filing his teeth and oiling his typewriter, a beaker of vitriol handy. Our man put the question. John gave a passionate cry and burst into tears. No material...