Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Scialoja: "Day dreaming . . . had to be reminded of his turn to speak . . . voluble...
Boarding-school boys are often very ingenious. They will work for hours to save themselves ten minutes of routine. Among them an invention has been perfected whereby, when an alarm clock rings, pulleys and weights are set in motion which in turn close a window, turn on a radiator, light an electric light and open drawers. Last week in Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, an inventor stood before a group of newspaper men. Beside him was a washing machine with a bright tube affixed to its side. He raised his hand. The washing machine began to churn. He raised...
...Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable...
...Advisory Committee followed the resignation of H. R. Hardwick '15 from that position. The new chairman played second base on Captain Hardwick's championship 1915 nine, and on the 1916 team which also won a championship under the tutelage of Fred G. Mitchell, present coach. The University did not turn out a baseball team in Mr. Abbot's senior year. The vacancy in the committee, caused by the resignation of Hardwick will not be filled it was announced...
Coach Dempsey hopes to repeat his record of the past two seasons and turn out another invincible sextet. Prospects are exceptionally good this year, as the Freshman class seems to contain an unusually large number of former preparatory school stars...