Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined in bringing suit against the Western Union Telegraph Co. for $1 actual and $1,800 exemplary damages. The legal petition sets forth: "Mrs. Mulford has brooded, and dark suspicions and doubts crept into her mind as to whether failure to receive the message was due to neglect and lack of thoughtfulness on the part of her husband, which indicated to her a waning of affection on his part, all of which caused her deep mental anguish...
...Europe is more appreciative of art. The people there know more about it and understand what an artist is trying to do. ... It is the women of America who have all the culture. The men make the money and enable the women to acquire the culture, but they neglect it themselves. And they need grace and politeness and serenity. Serenity is the last word in culture and it is not found in America. It is such omissions that make us look so bad abroad...
...Under the present system all to much emphasis is laid on football by the public and the newspapers, with the result that the undergraduates in many cases neglect their college work, especially for the two or three days before and after the big games...
...guest appear in uniform, and since even those foreign correspondents in Rome who are military men had left their uniforms at home, cables reported that all of them were refused admittance.† For good measure, numerous Italians who had outgrown their military trappings or allowed them to suffer from neglect were also barred. Despatches asserted that the American Ambassador, Henry P. Fletcher, was the only male guest who was allowed to appear in strictly civilian attire...
...demonstration of enthusiasm at the Union last night offers strong contrast to the attitude of indifference towards the University team half a century ago. An indignant editorial on "Harvard Indifference Towards Athletics", appearing in a November issue of the CRIMSON in 1880, shows the extent of neglect to which the sport had fallen. The pitiful request that members of the University come out and encourage by their presence the eleven at practice, would seem particularly out of place in these days of secret sessions and active manager candidates guarding the Stadium. The editorial follows...