Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed a small group at the American Club in Paris and spoke of America's debt to France. I said we were indebted to her for her Art. The next thing I knew, I had been accused of making remarks uncomplimentary to the United States...
...shops about the square have caught the spirit of the thing. Sales of all kinds tempt the departing student to carry away with him all the odds and ends left over from the year's business. The drug store windows display barrels of delicious looking moth balls. Everything presages the disintegration of the college community. As the line of march to the rotunda begins to form, the Crimson extends to the departing host its heartiest wishes for a pleasant vacation and a safe return to the fold in far-away September...
...auxiliary artery. [The colleague's armpit was indicated.] Yes, siree. Put yourself in his place. . . . When my experiments are completed, I'll have seven different kinds of cosmetic powders, one for every type of skin. That will make a corpse look realistic. That's the thing to do, put yourself in . . ." There was coffee to drink during the bloodletting and then there was rollicking song. Setting-up exercises imparted verve for more talk of autopsies. Not all the proceedings became known to the public. The newspaper reporters present, strange to say, early lost interest...
...week. Said the President-elect: "The honor system is the finest flower of student responsibility. ... [I am] a fan on athletics . . . real preparation for the game of life. . . . [The college's "spiritual tradition"] is a certain indefinable something that is a very definite part of the college, a thing or things which cannot be put in words or which cannot be expressed in material terms...
...same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world that has forgotten it. As for putting stories together, he.can put one inside the other, so that the one within illumines that without like a candle shining through a curtain. Such is his tale about Capcl Maturin, the Ace of Cads, who shamed...