Word: tis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomorrow comes: and its own troubles with it. There is festivity indeed--for the invading hordes. But the Senior is pervaded by a deep and abiding sense of the futility of things. Even the great world looks like a longed-for heaven. "Tis Well! Out he goes...
...Tis a strange tale--this story of a Princetonian-CRIMSON picnic on the banks of the Charles celebrated by a special issue of the Harvard paper burlesquing the break between the two Universities. Older and more experienced heads in positions of influence in these worthy institutions might well profit by the example set by their young colleagues. --Yale Daily News...
...therefore, of Canada's beneficial institutions that the first boy-speaker, Herbert Moran of Toronto, told. After he had finished, the band played "God Save the King," which a lot of the children mistook for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" because the tune was the same, and up stepped William Meades Newton of Liverpool, England, to tell about the benefits of the British Empire. Nearly every one recognized the next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece...
...informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York." It can hardly be conceded that such doggerel is a national patriotic air, yet these children are indirectly being taught...
...deed is almost done. I congratulate you on the Democratic side of this Chamber; I commiserate my brethren on the Republican side. We have acted here on the Republican side upon the theory that? If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly...