Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touched by Fortune for some girls and not to receive it is vexatious humiliation to others, for only those who have the little numbers may dance with Maskers. The old aristocracy does not forget the relative importance of the various clubs: Comus, the oldest, Atlanteans, Momus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, a score of others, nor does it become too freely intrigued with street processionals...
...King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd impresario. He will tickle U. S. vanity by presenting native opera, if they insist upon it. This is the twelfth such production. None of its predecessors amounted to much." Before long they changed their minds...
...accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...
Since the Government has put in a budget system there have been eleven regular (usually semiannual) meetings of the Federal "business" organization. The new Lincoln took the President to speak before the twelfth. His keynote: "What needs to be done should be done." Extracts...
...city universities snowballing along to ever huger proportions, privately endowed universities have lately felt it necessary for fame's sake, to advertise that their aim is "quality, not quantity." Harvard, Yale and Princeton have also stressed the point that they are "national" universities. And last week Yale, standing twelfth in point of size among the 86 representative institutions included in the Boston Transcript's annual survey,* pointed to itself as "most national" of the so-called Big Three. Taking the data of the classes of 1926 to 1929 inclusive, Yale proved itself Big Three favorite in 24 states...