Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...encounter football at Harvard had already experienced one rise and fall. The Freshman-Sophomore struggles, developing from the first "Battle of the Delta", continued through the 1804's and the next decade of the '50's, growing tougher as the years progressed, until the first Monday of the fall term became literally a "Bloody Monday," although the day may not have been so named until much later. And so, on July 2, 1860, the sport was quietly and peacefully slain by the Faculty of the College...
...This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally...
...give them wider circulation. When you reprinted them under the Sister's letter of protest, you marked yourselves as either boors or sympathizers with those verses. Then when another lady writes you to reprove you for your second exhibition of bad taste, you "crawl." There is no other term for it. You defended yourself by pretending you expected the publication of such trash would lead others "to join with TIME in holding them up to odium and detestation." Pray where is the odium you provided? Then you say that when such verses affect a campaign, you print specimens...
...figure with whom the new Republican leader will not have to deal, because he was elected only to fill out a dead man's term ending March 4, is New Mexico's Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo. Born nearly 70 years ago in Chihuahua, Mexico, Senator-elect Larrazolo came to fame by the escalator system of teaching school, clerking in courts and a district attorneyship. He was Governor of New Mexico...
Because President Irigoyen, during his previous term (1916-22), gave aid and comfort to numerous striking unions, his present attitude was hailed, last week, in the Bolsa de Comerxia or "Wall Street" of Buenos Aires as of favorable omen...