Word: transients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast about for some means with which to quiet such unworthy suspicions. Alighting happily upon the already miserable Crown Prince, they suggest his temporary attendance at an agricultural course at Brealau, and remind him of the advantages which should result to his estate at Oala from a sincere, if transient interest therein...
...bare outline of the plot necessarily makes the novel sound some-what squalid and overly grim?but it is neither. There is much humor in it, excellent portraiture, great fidelity to life. The years have not diminished Mr. Bennett's extraordinary curiosity about practically everything and person in this transient world...
Indeed throughout the book Mr. Sergel suffers from the racial diseases of all the modern realists. He is determined to hear no good, see no good, speak no good. He recognizes no sense of happiness, no joy of living, save of an artificial and transient sort. Even his love between men and women never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes...
...football game will be accorded the privileges of students in the University, at Memorial Hall. If they wish to eat there, they have only to say at the desk that they are Princeton men to be allowed these privileges. Such men will be allowed to purchase meals at regular transient prices without the necessity of being introduced by some member of the University...
...other day I went into Memorial Hall for a transient lunch. In the course of the passing moments, I was vastly amused by my paradoxical school-mates...