Word: motley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remind you that she was once called "America's Sweetheart." Lucky children will be taken by wise parents to see this Taming of the Shrew during Christmas holidays. Best shot: the marriage scene of Katherine in her fine gown and Petruchio who comes late to church, in Fool's motley, eating an apple...
Three years ago there was no Borger, Tex. Then from deep-driven pipes in Hutchinson County spurted oil. Today Borger is a city of 10,000, county seat of Hutchinson, a slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General...
...report attempts the impossible in its striving for generalizations on football. Its attendant evils are largely endemic throughout the East, yet we are fully aware that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them...
...sound social agent. In the very solidarity of the Army ranks is a situation which makes it impossible for Harvard men to be unaware of the nature of these guests from the Hudson. They stand out clear in the view of their hosts, set aside from the motley crowds which throng the stadium. And this picture of the Corps is sure to create an impression on all those who see it today. A real, vivid impression, not one which will be swallowed up in a thousand others, but which will survive for longer than a weekend of sport and gaiety...
Even to disband a horde of China's motley, half-dressed, rapacious hired troops costs dear. Dismissed soldiers must be given work and a modicum of pay or they will revert to banditry, a profession which most of them forsook to join the colors. Last week Finance Minister T. V. Soong, efficient Harvard graduate, announced a bond issue of $30,750,000 to carry out his economy program of disbanding half China's 356,500 troops (TIME...