Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity as the city presented for dances and cultivating the society of nice, and what Peter found intelligent girls. From then on he rose late, read all the newspapers and current magazines to be in the swim of conversation, and trained himself for the campaign. Here was the thing, that was lasting; if you made scores of friends, they would be with you all your life and you would have obtained something durable from college...
...often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful thing about them; they always had something to say, and then, they laughed so easily. Peter began to think he too was quite a light. This backed up his pet theories; now he was getting somewhere...
Although more quietly than before, the fight for woman's rights is still going on. Getting the vote was not the only thing, even in Lucy Stone's day. Those who had hoped to silence the eternal feminine with such concessions as the cigarette, the subway strap, and Radcliffe are doomed to disappointment. While militant ladies in Washington are insisting on laws to do away with all laws discriminating between the sexes, the Presbyterian General Council has gone on record as favoring the elimination of such inequality as exists between the sexes within the church...
That the nation will find the Cosmopolitan an adequate successor to the late White House spokesman is some-what questionable. Somehow the "quality group" rather than the "quantity group" of magazines--but Mr. Coolidge may always choose for himself. One thing, however, is certain, the former chief executive is going into print. His way of doing it is fully in keeping with a certain democratic spirit of the times, a way that insures Mr. Coolidge reaching a considerable mass of his recent supporters. But there is about it all something that suggests less the literary debut of a former president...
...Under these circumstances it seems the only logical thing to agree on a select group of officials who are capable of handling college games, and then to select all of our officials from that group so that each man in the group will be assured of enough college games to make his exclusion of school games worth while...