Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...casts the deciding vote. This neutral arbitrator has the opportunity to develop an extra-legal process of mediation by which the necessity of much litigation is avoided. It is usually stipulated that the agreements reached by mediation do not create precedents, but apply only to the particular cases in hand. The neutral arbitrator, if he has the ability and inclination, may in the course of his work by discussion and education establish standards of justice and fair dealing in the employer-employee relation acceptable to both sides. These may form a sort of underwritten constitution of great practical influence upon...
...From then until 7.15 there will be informal singing with C. T. Leonard '23 at the plane. Then Professor George Herbert Palmer will read the story of the birth on Christ from the New Testament. After that Leonard will play a plane sole. Sleight-of-hand tricks will be performed by Mr. Phillip Walker of Brookline. The rest of the program includes the singing of Christmas carols, led by James E. Bagley Sp., the reading of various selections by Miss Jennie Dimick of the Emerson College of Oratory, and another plane sole by C. T. Leonard...
...reading the story of the Nativity. The rest of the program of events includes Christmas carols, the reading of various selections by Miss Jenny Dimick of the Emerson College of Oratory, and piano selections by C. T. Leonard '23. Mr. Phillip Walker of Brookline will perform numerous sleight-of-hand tricks before the evening closes with doughnuts and cider and other refreshments...
...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...Leacock's efforts to be funny fall a trifle flat, when his satire or exaggeration are too obvious to "get across." Thus "John and I," "The Kidnapped Plumber" (except for a few brilliant flashes) and "Buggam Grange" seem somewhat forced. "The Split in the Cabinet" on the other hand is more successful in its treatment of the English political novel...