Word: vouching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage is not utterly overcome yet, however," continued Miss Cowl "In this age of Jazz-parties, it is an excellent commentary upon our country that such a play as 'Romeo and Juliet' may have such a reception as I can vouch for. But it is a rare thing, that reception. And circumstances are making these successes fewer and fewer...
Meanwhile Mother Prudence, the very model of a professional good-woman, tries out recipes, tries out the devices which are advertised next to her columns so that she can vouch for them. She even personally sees or visits some of the most desperate cases of poverty and misfortune. Out of the goodness of her heart she hospitably invites you (again in the words of the blurb...
...choirs gave the first concert performance of an entire service for the synagogue by Mr. Arthur Foote, assisted by various instrumentalists, and Mrs. Bertha Cushing Child as reader. The service did not make a universal appeal, but one who knows it fairly well can vouch for the fact that it improves on better acquaintance. Musically, it was given an altogether excellent performance, to us it seemed that the reader's part was much overdone, and the whole thing a bit "stagey...
...League has thus described its purpose: "To form a coterie of men who are well known and whose opinions will have weight, not churchmen and not goody-goody men, but hardened sinners like myself, representative fathers of families. They will read the books and pass judgement on them and vouch it to the world if they are objectionable or shocking...
...many non-Harvard season ticket holders, has made it necessary to restrict the sale of season tickets for the future to members and ex-members of the University. All Harvard men may buy for their relatives or friends for whose respectable conduct at the games they are willing to vouch, a reasonable number of season tickets, but none will be sold except through Harvard...