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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the memory of the late unpleasantness which visited the University during the last weeks, still so fresh in his mind, the Student Vagabond feels a great and irresistible urge to wander farther afield than the confines of Sever and New Lecture Hall. Never before have the Metropolitan white-lights glowed so invitingly; never before have the boards and the silver screen been so enticing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

...managers to postpone the Boston engagement would be futile since any such request would need figures and collegiate receipts for substantiation; nor is the average college student supposed to wander from the histrionics of Keiths revenues and the Metropolitan. There are however a few devotees of the opera who have succumbed to the allurements of a college education. To them the solution is the old and expensive one the midnight to New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

...midst of this unspeakable nausea for himself, a violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door...

Author: By E. L. Hatfield jr., | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE KEY | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

Industrialists decided several months ago that the performances and sideshows of King Caponi's regime were interfering with both the efficiency and nerves of their workers. Two vice presidents of a corporation were despatched to Washington to appeal to the Federal Government. Secret Service agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Industrialists v. Twins | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Those sad young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE SAD YOUNG MEN | 9/29/1926 | See Source »

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