Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry creature; conscious of his sorriness is pretty amusing to watch. Without their knowing it he has been sorry all along and I for one, have been amused by him. His imaginary figure fitting over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard or official waistcoat in the yard. He is a loveable, tragic...
Thus the Board of Overseers presents itself in reality as an eminently practical, influential and well balanced body. It is not composed solely of portly financial magnates with heavy watch chains or of spare intellectuals with none, and the geographical distribution of its members serves only to make it the more effective. The common interest is the welfare of the University, in the regulation of which the machinery is apt to run so smoothly that the under-graduate scarcely notices...
...Sterling is not only an artist in the maintenance of non-existent suspense; he has been the man who, when the Watch and Ward allowed a bit of literary seepage, put his finger in the dike until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because...
...more reversal of that familiar proverb, the gobs will get you if you don't watch out, Sharp Shooters, while it becomes at times a trifle dirty, is straightforward, adventurous and, even in the subtitles, comparatively witty...
...program now being pursued in England. It is a supposition that parallel lines and navies never meet. A maritime empire with turbulent peoples spread over the world, Great Britain uses such a navy for shepherding its Hocks; its twin in the United States is an expensive and nearly useless watch-dog. Because of the failure of pacifistic statesmanship, nearly nine-tenths of the country's revenue is poured down the gullet of Mars. But even this could be borne, as it has been borne, if it were not for the alarming trend that prophecy and propaganda are taking...