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That they entered their wrath and their attack on an educational institution is highly unfortunate. Any unprejudiced analysis has always shown that Harvard leans over backward to shun official political relationships. To bellow that Harvard has a desire to rule Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school boy, be expelled from the community, serves only to show the political hue of the picture. The council's cunning brush is attempting to swab Harvard with such brilliant and tawdry colors, that beside it Plan E may look dull, important, and anaemic on the ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE CAMOUFLAGE | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...career was spent teaching Mack Sennett actors to put curves on their custard pies. Regarding himself as an average cinemaddict, he feels sure that anything he enjoys will be enjoyed also by 10,000,000 other people. Old line directors, before talkies cramped their style, liked to stamp and bellow at their actors, strut and show off on the set. Like most of his contemporaries, Capra works without mannerisms, confers quietly with his actors and technical crew before each take. In Hollywood, long since ashamed of egoparading outside of working hours, it is now fashionable to have a private telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gem | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...really amazing fellow Is our Mayor, the good Fiorello-When his views are sought He expresses each thought By emitting a furious bellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office on the tide of such biblical quotations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

...last line went out over the ether waves, listeners by the million were startled to hear a loud voice bellow "YES, MRS. SIMPSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ad Lib | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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