Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serenade begins when tough, embittered John Howard Sharp, once an opera star, now a singer in tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls...
...published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish...
...permitting of a closed shop, which might mean a nine-tenths majority would dominate and discipline a one-tenth minority of the dining hall employees, involves several considerations not entirely favorable to the interests of the student and the University. It must be realized that, in reaching a settlement, Harvard is acting not only for itself, but directly for the student. Any manner of decision will affect the student body as a whole. If the University grants a further wage increase, it is almost axiomatic that the student board rate will rise accordingly--perhaps to the extent of an extra...
...latest book, To Have and Have Not, which sounded so good don't stick in one particular. Why, he wrote the first part of that book three, four years ago. I read it as a short novel fore I come in the Navy two year ago tenth of next month-in Cosmo, seems like I remember. The Spanish dident even know they was going to have a war then...
Next Harvard man in was Pen Tuttle '40, in eighth place. Roswell Brayton '39 was tenth, William Wright '38 in fifteenth place was the next Crimson man in. And the remaining six men finished in order starting with nineteenth place; Alex Northrop '38; George P. Gardner, Jr. '39; Frank L. Porter '40; Edward S. Childs '40; Francis M. Rivinus...