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...admiration and warmth, saying, "Here is good writing! Here the austerity of loveliness has been touched, here is a paragraph of music and mystery!" Perhaps there is no demand for these articles in the trade today. True, we find Mr. Burke babbling in a slum story of "beauty gone astray", but one easily sees what he means, and there's an end to that...

Author: By Theodore SPENCER G., | Title: VARIED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES | 12/14/1923 | See Source »

Washington correspondents are a specialized group whose profession is not without its public responsibilities. To them public officials say more than can be judiciously printed in order that what is printed may not lead the public astray. They must keep faith with the public and with men in official places. This is expressed in an official code of ethics formulated by the White House Correspondents' Association. Under it semiweekly press conferences with the President have been conducted, with the Association acting as judge of what persons shall be admitted to those conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Slemp vs. Correspondents | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...against the Klan at Harvard. It agrees with the New York Times that "the University authorities well might search their hearts carefully to find out how it happens that even one of the young men whom they were supposed to be teaching reason and truth should have been led astray by such vicious and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME--" | 11/23/1923 | See Source »

...average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes a scholarly mood and more estheticism than erotic thrills. The scene of the head is moderately horrible after the fashion of the traditional Grand Guignol, but is certainly not of a sort to lead bashful youth astray. Mary Garden's stilted dance might be witnessed by the frailest virtue without danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Banned by Boston | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

...purpose of the Klan. As was predicted Harvard has laughed at its Klan. But at the same time it is hard to disagree with the conclusion of the New York Times that it is cause for serious reflection "that even one of the young men. . . should have been led astray by such vicious, and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KOLLEGIATE KLANSMEN | 10/25/1923 | See Source »

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