Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advice of Premier Stanley Baldwin, King George V bestowed the dignity of an earldom upon the Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...
...among the men of genius, Tom Cardan, three-bottle philosopher with a face that had two sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique and a motor car; Mr. Calamy, 'by inclination a minor prophet, by fate an amorist, whose talent for meditation incessantly scuffled with his genius for seduction; Falx, Guild Socialist, who was amazed and deeply shocked at the characters, at the conversations of these people...
...Reinhardt Galleries went these artists, beheld what hung upon the walls, announced that they pitied the future Governor, that the Pitts- burgh society had their sympathy. They stood before the canvases, spread their legs into sententious V's, curled their lips. Others gazed, rapt, at the same canvases, like people brought before the face of holiness. A few, however, neither knelt nor mocked. "What," asked these, "are the virtues that have made Zuloaga famous ? Wliat are the faults that have made him popular?" Coldly, they considered...
...Comp. Literature 8Sever 29 Comp. Literature 22 Emerson D Economics 9a Sever 5 English E Sever 30 English 7 Ach-Gold Zool. Lect. Room Golden-Purdy Geol. Lect. Room Quint-Williams Sem. Museum 1 Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5n Fogg. Lect. Rm. French I. IV. V. VI Harvard 6 German B Emerson D Government 17a Harvard 5 Government 18a Sever 6 Greek G II Sever 30 History 5b Sever 6 Latin B III Sever 18 Mathematics 10a Sever 18 Mathematics 14b Sever 18 Music 4d hf. Emerson D Philosophy 3b Emerson D Philosophy 19 Emerson D Physics...
...Comp. Literature 8 Sever 29 Comp. Literature 22 Emerson D Economics 9a Sever 5 English E Sever 30 English 7 Ach-Gold Zool. Lect. Room Golden-Purdy Geol. Lect. Room Quint-Williams Sem. Museum 1 Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5a Fogg Lect. Rm. French 1. IV. V. VI Harvard 6 German B Emerson D Government 17a Harvard 5 Government 18a Sever 6 Greek G II Sever 30 History 3b Sever 6 Latin B III Sever 18 Mathematics 10a Sever 16 Mathematics 14b Sever 18 Music 4d hl Emerson D Philosophy 3b Emerson D Philosophy 19 Emerson...