Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over and above the lore of his calling, a general acquaintance with the history of mankind, with the scientific view of the universe, with the best in world-literature and the other arts, and with the major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed, it may as well be said that the thing can not be done; for what results can we expect from a system of special courses and free election which abandons to immature...
TWEEDLES?If you thought Seventeen was funny, wander in. The same author, the same treatment, the same players. All wear well...
Zeno. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be annoyed to learn that ectoplasm is not taken seriously by the producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...
...Doubtless the Alaskan community is quite as well nourished mentally with its restricted news diet as are some of us who find our nauseated way, if we read our newspapers fully, through elaborated and expatiated stories of crime and scandal and wander through a haze of speculative politics...
...penniless and he vagabonded around the United States for some years, selling bonds or real estate or fraternity jewelry with equal indifference and success and falling back on odd jobs as a waiter or laborer when broke. He was an easy spender and a rolling stone and his Wander-jahre brought him the knowledge of three things?that he had a certain gift as a smoking-car or pool-parlor raconteur, that he was attractive to women, and that, as he grew older, he wanted some more permanent success than his roving habits offered...