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...Judge Lindsey reconcile this code with the Bible? He did not. "Those of my views which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes...
...Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...
...then at last some smart feller on the Lampoon found the way out. He'd make it so unpleasant for Princeton to come up to Cambridge to play football that the Tigers would sever relations of their own accord, avoiding Harvard the embarrassment...
...that was it. William Randolph Hearst, owner of International News Service, had sponsored one of the most "unethical", newspaper stories in his long career. He, of course, had not written it himself, but it was perfectly in accord with his tradition, and in direct conflict with newspaper ethics. "Get a lead! Go as far as you dare! Pep! Snap!" Well-paid Hearstlings and editors are promptly ousted if they...
...step comes as a distinct innovation in the development of the Confidential Guide. Hitherto, it has been published in the fall with criticism of courses beginning in the first half year. This most recent Guide has been designed to accord some similar treatment to the large number of courses that now begin in the second half year...