Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These prophetic words were borne out by the developments at Ann Arbor Saturday. Harvard made a lasting impression, and its magnificent comeback augurs well for the future. There are two stiff tests which is just beginning to show its latent offensive possibilities, and of course the 13-13 the between Yale and Maryland does not offer any sort of an accurate gauge of the Elis at the Harvard Stadium a week from next Saturday...
...enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When he returned on leave, exhausted with hardship and tension, he could no longer take his share in the smart, arty conversations of his set, and found both Elizabeth and Fanny doing very well without him. His commission brought only increased nervous strain, so he let himself be killed...
...Significance. Death of a Hero falls into two parts, a condemnation of the Victorians, especially for their sexual obscurantism, and a condemnation of the War. They are not well linked, except that both contribute to the catastrophe, and the second is far stronger. The Victorians are satirized with a savagery that defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously...
When the alumni were well-fed and lightsome, they heard Yale's President, with Angellic jocosity, say: "One of our coaches, on the day that the Carnegie report was published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale...
Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot. Now he confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...