Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement of the plans of the 1926 Senior Dormitory Committee, juniors will begin to give serious thought to their rooming problem for next year. The prospect of obtaining rooms in remodeled Massachusetts or the new Holden dormitories will doubtless tempt a wholesome rivalry for these vantage points, but may also make the older Yard dormitories appear less desirable. The supercomforts of the Freshman halls, added to the freedom of living for two years where one pleased, may have produced fastidious tastes. The gradual approach to senior's state may have worn away the thrill which, three years earlier...
...present other in the way of suave innuendo or of righteous exaggeration, and the book reviews were usually competent, but not clever, but one suspects that the unbroken columns of the editorial pages and the unbelievably microscopic print of the reviews presented too little attraction to the eye to tempt the reader from skipping. In the current issue, however, the editorials and reviews are made unusually attractive through liberal use of spaces and running captions in the editorial department, and the selection of a larger type and the introduction of a new sub-department. "Contents Noted," in the review section...
...wages of sin. And should this definite philosophy be firmly fixed in the public mind, one might draw the regrettable conclusion that the President of the United States and the Prince of Wales are the most sinful of men. To reward sinners with fame seems the very way to tempt them to further activity; and in fact criticisms of yellow journalism usually hinge on the point that public display of crime sets a bad example...
...embassy, $17,500 a year, the honor and titles of Ambassador do not tempt a man well placed in politics any more than they seduce the average successful man from business. R. B. Creager of Brownsville, Texas, a friend of President Harding and friendly with his successor, refused a nomination as Ambassador to Mexico. A White House announcement emblazoned his refusal in these words: "Hon. R. B. Creager of Brownsville, Texas, has been tendered the post of Ambassador to Mexico by President Coolidge, as had also been done by President Harding. Mr. Creager, since the death of President Harding...
Ectoplasm has appeared before on the theatrical bill of fare, but the dish now being served at the Wilbur,--ectoplasm taken with a pinch of salt, stirred up with a dash of satire, and blending judiciously with melodrama,--will tempt the most play-weary palate...