Word: digressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...
...Behring Sea Arbitration. Later he represented his country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
Last week in a speech to a branch of the National Woman's Party in San Francisco she allowed herself thus to digress from her theme?Susan B. Anthony...
...that traumatic stuff which Freud would assure us will bother the graduates for the remainder of his celibate or marital existence--chiefly the latter, for it is a sorry truism, known even to a Freshman, that man gives hostages to fortune in monogamy, and even in polygamy. . . . But we digress. What we meant to say was that in this communication to the CRIMSON we were only acting up to the tradition of lamenting the institution of divisional examinations for Seniors. The early siege of Spring will partly excise this early lament. But you may rest assured that we are merely...
...experts will digress somewhat from their chosen fields today in Phillips Brooks House. At 7.45 o'clock the Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of Western New York, will discard the usual subjects of theologians and will speak on another subject in which he is well versed. "An Inside view of the League of Nations" will be his topic. At 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon Professor Theodore Lyman will talk on "Faith and Modern Physical Theory" as the second of the three Science and Religion talks...