Word: balms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...
...varsity squash team was the only one to go through the season undefeated, but there are a few other incidents which provide a little balm for the wound inflicted by Yale. Harvard's hockey team was probably one of the strongest in the last decade and went through a stiff season with only one defeat until it met and was conquered by Yale. The Freshman wrestling team had not lost a meet until the final one of the season with the Blue. The varsity squash "B" and "C" teams also were defeated only once. The second hockey team suffered only...
...dallied with the thought, tossing it around the corners of his room. And then, pinned up on his daily calendar, he espied a way out of it all. He had found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour...
...hours these unbelievable scenes went on. Then, at last, came the blessed rain, the monsoon, like a healing balm...
...coming over the newspaper exchanges to while away an idle hour the Vagabond came upon the above clipping, and was immediately struck with a medley of perplexing notions. To discover that the gentle art of vagabonding had found a safe haven amid the western plains was healing balm to his quite misdirected suspicion that he was never listened...