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...mindedness with which we as a nation have embraced industrial success as the standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however...
...then hopped into his car and canvassed the state for moral support as well as program advertising. Local gentility encouraged but the potential box-office patrons remained contemptuous. The first rehearsal was held last fall. In order to allay suspicion such more popular numbers as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Peer Gynt," and Sousa's "Gridiron Club March" were promised...
...Washington, the Apple Growers' Union announced the introduction of a contrivance with horizontal revolving rollers and 500 flapping pieces of canvas, to wipe apples. Importance: to allay the impression that poisoning results from arsenic residue left on apples after spraying...
...Woodword and his ills have done enough, and continue to do enough in the matter of "debunking" American history to allay any suspicious that further iconoclasm is at all necessary...
Unsatisfied with the news value of multifarious marine endeavors and fistic combats the athletic minded journalists have started the fall season with blurbs about a future war to the tooth, or whatsoever, between two ancient and honorable universities, Princeton and Harvard. To allay any fears on the part of pacifists who read such public prints and to deploy the endeavors of speculators into other and more hopeful channels it may be definitely stated that there...