Word: tented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before presented to the human eye. Its tent is "the greatest stretch of canvas ever raised," its acrobats are "the greatest aggregation of mid-aerial gymnasts in the world," its tigers are "the greatest and most thrilling wild animals ever offered in this or any other country" and its elephants are"the biggest brutes that breathe." Miss Bertha Beeson...
...Sheik" and excuse for a Valentino. This popular opinion has prevailed to such an extent that the Arab, like the Turk, has been discounted as a ruler, in the case of Palestine for a recent example, in the belief that he has little aptitude for much beyond tent-life and pillaging...
...Godley, one of their number to England last November, with the most sensitive apparatus possible to get together. Mr. Godley searched for a promising location, and finally located at the little town of Ardrossan, in Scotland, just below Glasgow. Here he erected his antennae and apparatus in a tent, and the British amateurs selected one of their number to listen with him and verify the signals that might be received. A very elaborately arranged schedule was built up for the American amateurs and for ten successive nights amateur signals were sent from any amateur on this side who desired...
...does Achilles sulk thus in his tent? Is this how those who love their country conduct themselves when it is most in want of their help and support? Why, when constructive statesmanship is needed, do Mr. De Valera and his followers content themselves with standing by and babbling vague denunciations to whoever has time to listen? The Irish Free State has yet to be built still they would tear it down before it is even started. Constitutional opposition in a regularly organized parliament is one thing; loud invective and rebellious threats against a newly organized government not able to stand...
June 23. Headquarters, Stoughton 24. Lunch at the Alumni tent...