Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...
...canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made him champion. In his dressing room Fields regained speech but not memory. Said he: "How did it happen? What happened? How did he flatten me? How did I win?" About 30,000 people paid $125,000 to see the foul...
...Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went...
...happen to have been born in Holland, as were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope...
...Fellows is a farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...