Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tinge one's thoughts even after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which...
...Monroe Doctrine," Professor C.W. Webster, Harvard...
...youth who gave his name as "Daniel Webster" turned out to be one Westheimer. One "Simpson" turned out one Sandwahl. One "Laurence Ellis" was one Laurence L. Liss...
...indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement for those who have never tried it, but if practised continually it hurts the head...
...clock this morning in Harvard 1, Professor G. K. Webster, exchange professor from the University of Liver-pool, will lecture upon the effect which public opinion and the press has exercised upon British politics and policy since...