Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first appearance is tentatively scheduled for next Monday, when the combined clubs will perform at the V Veterans Hospital. The next concert will be held at the Freshman Smoker, when part of the clubs will present a short program in the Union. The date of the Smoker has not yet been definitely decided upon, but will probably come at the end of this month...
...first phalanxes are already merging into formation. And what a fight there will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...
...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...
...Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book V., Proved Algebraically. Years later, Lewis Carroll was prevailed upon to write about Alice again, this time Through the Lookingglass, in which Humpty Dumpty and the Jabberwock made their initial appearance. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson died...
...likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...