Word: thesauruses
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...wholly accountable that his favorite show was "Bab"; such a man could never prostitute his art by going to see RinTinTin. His friends began to telephone him palindromes; he needed a telephoned eyeopener to bring him out of a thesaurus hangover from the night before. But Mr. Diuguid triumphed even in death, lingering until the eleventh month of his 77th year. It is a proof of our perverted sense of values that a life so dedicated should win only a posthumous notoriety on the front page of the New York Times...
...universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...Politics" in a new American thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
...nation, and the University should be the centre of careful, non-hysterical work for their just and final solution. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the pen plus a little well-considered thought will always conquer the pen plus only a dictionary or a thesaurus of words, phrases, and invectives. CARL I. WHEAT...
...officers of the Classical Club for the current year are: Professor Clifford H. Moore, honorary president; and H. J. Edmiston 2G., secretary. At the last fortnightly meeting on Dec. 6, Professor Moore spoke on "The New Latin Thesaurus," and Professor M. H. Morgan on "Recently Discovered Egyptian Papyri." During the winter, three public lectures will be given. Mr. Edward Robinson, of the Boston Art Museum, will speak on "Forgeries of Antiquity...