Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the assistant professors. He has had to publish works of supposed scholastic merit which have been deemed essential to admit him to the fellowship of learned men. Many of these treatises have received no circulation beyond the examining board and are composed merely to satisfy an academic whim. After casting a casual glance over titles of the obscure subjects upon which the academic aspirant must write, one is inclined to wonder if this really is a true indication of scholarship. Are tracts on scholastic minutiae essential, do they indicate which are the sheep and which the goats? Changing aspects...
...this volume. Jack Sheppard, an 18th century felon of note, laughed at locksmiths and was the beadle's despair of his time. His uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...final Schneider Trophy Races (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931). Last week irrepressible Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again on her yacht, The Liberty once owned by not-quite-so-rich and eccentric Joseph Pulitzer. From The Liberty, on which Lady Houston lives with steam constantly up, blazes at her whim an electric sign DOWN WITH MACDONALD, THE TRAITOR...
...telephone and telegraph operators on Enchanted Hill will be just as rushed on the Chief's 70th birthday as any other day. For the man who has given freer play to every whim and ambition than any American of his time holds no dav pure holiday. And he has said: "The time to retire is when God retires you and not before...
...warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker was in his cell. So of course we couldn...