Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing in the same vein. Pach writes..."the blatant thing at Harvard was intended as a tribute to the boys whose generous impulse made them rush from their college to join the students from other lands on the battlefields...Well., the job had to be done anyhow, just as, 15 or 20 years before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage...
...like it, I might as well admit that well--I like it. It's what I've been shooting at ever since I was a Freshman, and though of course I suppose we thought more about this thing than, well, than anything else around college, just the same I was surprised to be elected Most Careful Greeter. There are lots of others...
...think the House Plan will make Careful Greeterism a subtler thing than ever before. Take me, for example, a Senior. I have fulfilled all my ambitions, academic and social. There is no one on whom I need to use the Chummy. But under the House plan even Seniors will be continually meeting professors. Useful levers to success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer...
...Want a Man," growled Libby Holman, and, although she frowned as she intoned her need, no one could understand why it was not instantly gratified; Louise Brown pretended charmingly to be a Colonel's daughter. While its colours were a little too bright, the Rainbow was a pleasant thing to see and, because of its rowdy theme, a good omen for future minstrelsies...
...aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane was in the water, a green and yellow thing, labeled the Ricaurte after the Colombian patriot...