Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somebody must get a little cannot you suggest the thing be done in connection with some intellectual stunt-instead of a God damned glutton...
...make the same mistake I did, my dear." Do you admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost in its labyrinths you will cry out, "But things like this don't happen." As indeed they...
...spring comes slowly up this way and you find yourself wandering about murmuring "O, to be in England now that spring is here", go to the Repertory by all means. Let your romantic soul be frightened almost out of its ectoplasm for fear the girl win do "The Right Thing" instead of running away from her furniture collecting husband of 40. Hope against hope and in the end wander out into the night again and down Huntington Avenue murmuring "There is a God." You old softie...
...sizable audience was lured to Paine Hall than the pitiful handful which has sat at the ringside of many an arduous intercollegiate debate in the past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory that the editors of the Lampoon had been bribed by Yale...
...teachers to fill vacancies caused by teachers leaving the profession. At that rate, the crops of new teachers now coming up are sufficient only if each teacher remains actively on the job for 30 years instead of six. In fine, said the rural education division, it is an excellent thing that teachers' colleges and normal schools are trying to stimulate their enrollments; an excellent thing that some states have introduced (even though only as temporary expedients) normal training courses in their high schools...