Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from out their casements will be impressed by having to write that word five hundred times on a piece of paper subsequently to be handed to the dean. Yet this is the current quotation of the penalty attendant on this indiscretion, and rises of from five hundred to several thousand points are to be be looked for if the Freshmen capture the sense of humor which their proctors seem to have lost. With this report in mind it is not surprising to learn that the proctors of Smith Hall have decided that at least one of their number must...
...invoked by business and by all Americans. She is petitioned on every street, in every magazine or newspaper and wherever people gather. She has been called Advertisa. But her so celebrated, go constant presence surely deserves a better name from stunned or dinary mortals. In a thousand ways the tenth muse's charms have outshone all the charms of her sisters. Only her priests are surviving her blinding polecy. They glory in a terrific combination of red and yellow geometric splashes with shouting black letters of "fire and rummage sale." They glory in page after page of pirate ship packages...
Sofia, small, picturesque capital of Bulgaria, sprang suddenly into color last week. Bulgaria's white-green-red flag fluttered from a thousand windows. In balconies were flowers. From public buildings streamed bunting. In the churches were services; in the streets, a parade. All the shops were closed...
...this has been done a thousand times before; generally, however, with boots, spurs, duels, serious passions. The Command Performance is modern romance, feathery, sophisticated. The queen smokes cigarets; the King of Wallachia abuses his wife, as does Lord Trench in The High Road; the actor, played well by Ian Keith, kisses the queen's hand in farewell and then pats it with affection; the prince, played less well by Ian Keith, sets off for the U. S. to make his living, one suspects, in a night club...
Cincinnati last week dedicated the two new wings of its Music Hall, made it the occasion for a Greater Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. A thousand school children attended one afternoon, sang praises before a new marble bust of Stephen Foster, onetime Cincinnatian, composer of "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Folks at Home," Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Black...