Word: whim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poet also of the other world, he gibbers Spider, Spider, of madness, "hairy-lipped, a crab from Hades." Arabia Felix and The Tower of Genghis Khan are old opiates. He is a man for hot color-read Whim Alley; and sweet peace-see Old Meadows. If there are full-stature poets in the U. S., and it is demonstrable that there are, Hervey Allen, young Charleston, S. C, schoolteacher, is well to the fore in their company...
...lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose slightest whim the whole aggregation of peasants would gladly cast itself upon the bayonets of an enemy...
...imposing a new course upon undergraduates at the whim of "section-men" or instructors, the writer believes that this statement is ridiculous. The hundreds of reports to which your editorial refers must have come form a great many instructors, "section-men," and even professors in various departments. In such a case a large part of the faculty, you would have us believe, are sadly given to "threats" and "mere whims" in their judgment of undergraduates. Far from charging the faculty with humiliation because some undergraduates do not write reasonably correct and sensible English, the a CRIMSON should compliment the faculty...
...committee has acted fairly--desiring not to conscript students into the course without warning. But the result has been to cause a good deal of misunderstanding, and much just criticism. The threat of a new course of any kind which may be imposed on undergraduates at the mere whim of some section men or examination correctors is severe. Almost all men make careless mistakes of commission and omission while writing under pressure in an examination; it is not thereby proved that they are in need of a disciplinary course in English Composition...
...thousand specialties. You are documented, certificated, sophisticated. But have you the old eager reverence for the great books? And where, by the way, are your own books? From these thousands of American colleges and universities, how many 'vital, creative books are born? The university of Walden Pond had "Whim" written above its doorposts, but it bred literature. There was once a type of productive scholar who may be described as "he that scattereth, and yet increaseth", but your amazing and multifarious activity is not much of it wastage rather than growth? Simplify! Coordinate! Find yourselves, and then lift up your...