Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word which, when used by Mr. Chief Justice Taft, acquires the timbre of archangelic trumpeting. "Con-sti-tooo-tional," says Mr. Chief Justice Taft...
...Business School and Mr. George Ade, slang fablist extraordinary, Purdue alumni both have written lugubriously in the CRIMSON concerning their Alma Mater's chances today. But Mr. Schierling and Mr. Ade are chuckling up their respective sleeves. They don't really believe that "Purdue" is an old French word meaning "lost". Their motives, I suspect, are basely commercial...
...students, except those in the Business School, who are confined to their rooms by illness, may send word to the Medical Advisor's office in Wadsworth House, or telephone University 7600 between 8.30 and 5.30 o'clock. After 5.30 o'clock and also on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and Holidays, telephone Back Bay 10100 for Dr. P. H. Means '17, University 10720 for Dr. M. H. Bailey, or University 7047, Stillman Infirmary...
...commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...