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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many unusual things with her eyes, voice, hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault of the men who wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." So wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth or the sixteenth century saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBTS INFALLIBILITY OF RECENT ENCYCLICAL | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...activities and work of these institutions which the CRIMSON's new feature, will attempt to present. Along with the purely factual presentation of the news dealing with such matters as new acquisitions and exhibitions it is intended to give a more or less critical and in any case authoritative discussion of the subject by some one fitted to do so. In this way it is expected that not only will the various museums and the libraries receive more just and intelligent comment, but also that those interested in the matters which the column will take up will be furnished with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW COLUMN | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

...three weeks before examinations one can loaf or cram probably a little of both. It is true there is work assigned for courses and other work for the tutors. However, if I am not mistaken, the purpose of this freedom is to encourage individual study. It may attempt to produce scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reactions | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

...recaptured them from their doorsills in the corridors of McKinlock. Pushed to no emulation of the native pedal refulgence it is true, the visitors still, after their fashion, set their shoes outside the door to be separated from New England soil by some nocturnal worker. And they found the attempt was bootless. It led Mr. Nugee, their leader, to declare that America's boasted efficiency is in jeopardy when a student calmly allows himself to be enthroned for ten minutes for an operation that could be easily and painlessly accomplished in his sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIEGE PERILOUS | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

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