Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearty co-operation of the Lampoon and to a less degree of the CRIMSON. We of this office are only human and sometimes wish that someone would play with a fire extinguisher or do something spectacular in order that ancient and long-standing statues might be put to use. We have hoped in vain, and in fear of premature age through inactivity I have resigned...
...French is a servile language, the use of which should be restricted entirely to hotel waiters...
...That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic...
Litigant Everest turned to his abandoned harness-oil still. He thought of trying petroleum for mechanical lubrication. Only wax and vegetable oils were then in use. Modern lubrication science was born at the barn. The Rochester oil business soon became too vast for Hiram Everest. Responsibility of management told on him. The Standard Oil Company bought him out at a small price, throwing in a job with a small salary, a nominal job as President of the Vacuum† Oil Co. with nothing much to do. President Everest continued to raise apples on his farm outside Rochester...
...pleasure of the company of Mrs. Beddoes on the occasion of the marriage of their son Wildherne Francis Poole to Janet, daughter of the late. . . ." Thus Janet was plunged irrevocably into the Victorian tradition, and all to provide comfort and stability for her adored sister. Unfortunately Rosalind had no use for such stability. She found Janet's reception rather a dowdy party; the room was very fine with its white walls, shining background to the family pictures, ". . . but nobody was very smartly dressed. Very few young people. No naked people at all. A great many old men with ribbons...