Word: isn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love." "Oh" isn't definite, but it may be very expressive. Is it some such interpretation that the Victorian is to give to the words of these youthful poets? Is this the way they really feel...
...English lord wanted by Mama for Marjorie; a mock-English lord to do the confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely in an empty square outside. All of a sudden you find it isn't Cook's; the ubiquitous Thomas has moved out and a female restaurateur has moved in. This produces a pretty confusion, especially since Cook's sign is still up. Various people come in to buy tickets and get advice; in this way the student, who is really a prince...
Perhaps "The Glorious 17th" was a sermon on home ethics--who knows? Isn't there a sort of heart-string appeal in the placid features of the old man and the worried expression of his spouse? The fact that this group is of a race which the author forgets to name is simply because the 17th of March happened to be the most timely holiday to portray. If the issue had come next month, the "27th of April" would have done, being observed as a holiday among the Madagascans...
...University shares the space of the Illustrated with the newspaper. There are two articles. One, the leader, by W. M. E. Perkins '07, purports to be an excerpt from "the real diary of a real newspaper man." It tells about a "Dull Week" which isn't. Whence one may gather that reporters' souls are calloused, that they sacrifice truth to sensation and that the business of seeing things is not compatible with understanding them. Also, that the reporter leads a dog's life. The other article, by C. S. Collier '11, is called "The Free Newspaper." Mr. Collier does...