Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present abnormal Federal bureaucracy, and unavoidable corollary of the breakdown of local governments incidental to the breakdown of local finances, must be wiped out through a drastic revision of the national system of taxation," said Gaspar G. Bacon '05, Republican candidate for Governor, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a dagger-like point that wounds and wins. Always the gentleman, Husband Brook endows his wife's portraits with polite dignity and even a certain beauty...
...arty Woodstock, N.Y. where the Bacon-Brook family used to summer before they moved to Cross River, N.Y., oldtimers remember them as The Couple Who Kept the Baby With the Rattlesnake. This is not the exact story. Husband Brook and Wife Bacon were in the habit of parking their healthy young son Sandy in a small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed...
...introduction to European philosophy, it puts too much emphasis on six great men--Plato, Aristotle, or Marcus Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools...
...Texans waited 45 minutes and Thomas did not appear. Finally an an nouncement was made that his $1,500 guarantee had not been raised. He had offered to sing for $750 but had refused the $500 that Local Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald offered...