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...Censorship," as he tellingly expressed it, "is the bunk. Salacious plays when allowed to run unmolested die soon. Censorship only arouses hostility and popularizes the plays censored...
...This is all bunk, as anybody connected with Harvard rowing will be only too glad to tell you. I know such conditions, have not existed during the one and one half years I have been here, and I don't believe such statements ever were true. We are not interested in who you are, but in what you are. If any one of you can show me, and me alone, that you are a better man than someone who now occupies a sea in the first boat, you will...
...started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
Hardly a full day out from Cherbourg, churning her white wake westward into the seas of the leviathans, steamed the only Leviathan remaining. Her skipper, Captain Hartley, leaning into the wind upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White...
...Campaign bunk is affecting the American people less in this election than in any previous one, in the opinion of Professor W. B. Munro, G '99, given while he was discussing the result of Tuesday's balloting...