Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At 22, Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself...
Mr. Dakers was by way of being a poet; Mrs. Dakers, years before, something of a Shakespearean actress. And so it happened that their adolescent boys were made to wear painfully purple velvet costumes at their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they...
An old hen will scuttle back and forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred...
Such a long look toward the future is as unexpected as it is revealing. But it is to be said in Harvard's defense that not even the original exponents of chivalry picked up their clothes without the thoughtful assistance of someone.
"Les Surpriges du Divorce" was first produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris where it met with considerable success. In 1912 it was given by the Cercle Francaise and in consideration of its reception then and its general excellence as a comedy they are planning to give-it again...