Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover the movement is wide spread. Tuxedos are out of favor in Berlin, and the social world is revolving on an orbit of hired dress suits. Oregon, after abolishing private schools, has taken a fling at convention and outlawed finger-bowls as "filthy and dangerous and tip-inducing." So important has the question become that a Representative in Congress is encountering serious opposition as candidate for majority leader solely because he owns too many sack suits and has them repaired too often...
...considerable amount of hardship, to receive, at the end of the period, a certain pecuniary' reward. In the past education could be compared to effort of this sort, but its modern version is more like a ride in a Pullman car, with only the fare to pay and a tip for the porter at the end of the journey. Of course, paying the fare is sometimes an inconvenience, but most things have to be paid for, even the unreturned shirts in last week's laundry. Education still requires a certain amount of study, but that is almost negligible when...
...communicant this morning, is admirable. Any sport with the strong attraction that football has should be enjoyed by as many participants as possible. From the nature of the game few men of light and intermediate weights can safely or profitably play football, yet there are numerous gridiron devotees who tip the beam below the University average. Wrestling, boxing, and rowing are conducted in avoirdupois divisions with beneficial results for light men; why not football...
...more sins than are recorded in a week's series of book-of-etiquette advertisements. It is also reported that he overcame these difficulties and is now a bank president or something; but he would surely have found it much easier if he had had at his tongue's tip a supply of timely speeches on what to do when at dinner you cut yourself with a knife, or how to behave at a mixed theatre party (Query: are we, the theatre, Mr. Smith, or the party mixed...
...York Tribune compared the play with "Tip Top" and found the Pudding burlesque fully as entertaining as Fred Stone's production. The New York Sun praised the "ladies" of the cast and Chorus whom they reported "kept the entertainment going with a zip and a bang". The New York Herald said the play "enabled Harvard to claim one more victory" and gave the following general comment on the performance: "More and more do college theatrical productions approximate the Broadway standard, and the annual show of the Hasty Pudding Club, called "It's Only Natural", which was given at the Plaza...