Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...otherwise entertaining automobiles at Harvard. Just as there are all manner of humorous accessories at any place. But comparatively few undergraduates find touring in Fords their sole occupation in the spring months. No one has as yet, either in faculty or college, risen to exclaim. "The Ford's the thing...
Miss Standing is blessed with the role of a vivacious young thing who plays around the stage with all kinds of nods, becks, and wreathed smiles; and when Miss Standing is called upon to frolic, her admirers must either stay away or keep looking steadfastly elsewhere. Mr. Mowbray and Miss Dudgeon and Miss Ediss also ran: the sogginess of the track was too much for everybody...
That is the point of the whole thing. Any playwright who must get his laughs from a revolver explosion, a smear of lipstick on the temple, and a fall on a couch that looks like a juggler getting ready to spin a barrel on his feet is no safe playmate for even the best stockcompany. It is to be supposed that at least two happy couples were united before the play closed: thereof the chronicler telleth not. In fact, he is thinking of writing a book called "Third Acts, by one who has never been there...
...within three or four years. Some misguided persons thought that American boys should throw the javelin extremely well because they are such wonderful baseball players. That is all wrong. They are on the wrong road. Javelin throwing is altogether different. Baseball requires fewer muscles than the javelin. The surprising thing is that American athletes improve so fast at the javelin...
...those who have come here today," said the superb, omniscient CRIMSON, ". . . can in the least measure understand that there is such a thing as education . . . then there will be fewer useless and ill-prepared minds in the college of tomorrow...