Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he writes for the American Mercury (and sometimes in his Senate fulminations), Senator Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed...
...following article on former Harvard-Dartmouth football games was written for the Crimson by M. A. Cheek '26, captain, of the University team In 1925 and now Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House...
...rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...Oxford, Carroll continued his magazine, and a copy is shown in which is written the first stanza of the "Jabberwock," which was afterwards expanded into the book, "Through the Looking Glass." With the stanza is a key to the meanings of the unintelligible words: "Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves, Did gyre and gymble in the Wabe." The original drawings by John Tennie for the illustrations of the first editions of "Alice in Wonderland," and "Though the Looking Glass," are also exhibited, as well as a first edition of the former with a frontispiece colored by Tennie...
...race of beings. As a little boy I was simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed "Sylvie," and purported to be from the fairy in Carroll's story, "Sylvie, and Bruno...