Word: cir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things, it must try to compromise. It must not too zealously devote itself to "aesthetic outpourings", because "it is admittedly difficult to get our undergraduate to read any sort of professed literary endeavor". In the cir- cumstances, should such a paper try to keep its place in the sun by catering "to the tastes of the majority"-- or should it run the risk of suicide and print "stuff after the manner of the Dial in its wildest moments...
...source of this highly cir cumstantial hoax was not discov ered...
University of Oxford, founded cir...
...Queen. The Prince of Wales has joined the Society of Bright Young People, an organization which hunts enigmatic treasures. The rumor was that the Prince had been seen in the London slums crawling on all fours along a dirty sidewalk, followed by people "prominent in social or theatrical cir- cles," searching for a clew in the "treasure hunt." The clew, discovered either by Gladys Cooper (English actress) or Talullah Bankhead (U. S. actress) led to the home (Norfolk House) of Mrs. Brown, Pittsburgh millionairess, who served them a sumptuous repast and dashing music. (None of the above facts could...