Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON reporter get to the bottom of the mystery. K. S. Conkey '27 finally confessed to the ownership of the trunk and later confided that ambulance riding was quite his ordinary form of travel being an habitue of the Boston Sanitarium. "As for the trunk," he laughed, the only, thing dead in that is a set of Cicero's Orations...
...Nebraska, Robert E. Hines, youngest member of the State Legislature, proposed a bill to promote prolificacy among the upper classes: annulment of all marriages after three years if no offspring has been born, cases of impotency excepted. The Chicago Tribune commented, "The only thing we lack here in America is a law making the immortality of the soul compulsory...
...awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like to marry. His girl tells him he must do big things. Eventually, they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts runs loose in the streets of Liverpool. Just how it is all done, only the camera man knows. It will...
There is one thing to which I cannot reconcile myself. I have been thinking of writing this for a long time, but when I read your recent issue, which I liked so much, I thought the time had come to put forth my "protest," if I may use the word...
...cigarette is a small thing: so is a match. Both are smaller still after being burnt, but, as the poet says, "Little drops of water, little grains of sand,' etc. If we carry on the conceit, the purpose of my letter immediately becomes apparent. It is supposed to be hard enough to begin with to get students into class-rooms. Certainly, then, it is illogical that we should have to reach them by wading a moat of cigarettes and scaling a wall of matches...