Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able teacher, and an intellectual genius, he has at the same time shown himself to be an inspiring tutor and a warm friend to those with whom his life at Harvard brought him in contact. Slandered, misquoted, and often misunderstood by those who knew him least, his keen wit and his strong personality have won for him scores of staunch friends, who, while they could not always agree with his political principles, nevertheless found his influence stimulating and in spiring...
...clothes (which he usually has on). But Phillips Brooks House does have other functions besides finding strange room-mates for even stranger Freshmen, and bothering us with printed questionnaires which would make the War Department green with envy. It possesses the main qualification of a "true Bostonian,"--to wit: a High Moral Purpose in life. That it lives up to this standard may be learned by diligent perusal of its spring statement which appears as usual, this year, under the title of "Annual Report...
...treatment is according to recent Lampoon traditions. By the cover and advertisements you may know a "special number", and the test holds good here. Once again advertisers have rallied round, editors have done their best with the little space left for them, contributors have laboriously given of their wit, and the whole has been by some benevolent genius framed into a well designed and effectively printed magazine. The formula, of course is old. One operatic burlesque, at least one biblical parody, seasoning in the form of an occasional lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough to notice...
...theatre. On the other hand, only one fresh to the theatre could bring to it the freedom from hack attitudes and phrases, the thinking in terms of life, the alertness to what is abroad in the world of ideas that this play possesses. Added whereto is an exceedingly fine wit and amazing charm...
...resolution of ratification, which ratification is not to take effect or bind the United States until the said following reservations and understandings have been accepted as a part and a condition of said instrument of ratification by at least three of the four principal Allied and associated powers, to wit: Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan...