Word: cains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT-James M. Cain-Knopf...
...Novelist James M. Cain a profound social reformer, or is he just a dreadful man? Disagreement on this point has kept his profitable reading public in a tizzy for years. His best-selling first novel (The Postman Always Rings Twice) was banned in Canada, bought and shelved by M.G.M. by request of the Hays office. Serenade and Mildred Pierce provoked enthusiasm, disgust. What baffled readers was the fact that Author Cain handled the rawest of characters without gloves, mixed social significance and abnormal psychology into speedy narratives of crime and passion...
...Buddenburg, W. '44, Kirkland N-42 TRO 2477 Bullard, J. C. 1M., Vanderbilt 143 ASP 4411 Burditt, G. M., Jr. '44, Winthrop I-33 KIR 7782 Burroughs, W. H. '45, Kirkland E-32 ELI 2372 Butcher, W. S. '44, Winthrop I-41 KIR 6984 C Cain, J. E. Jr. '46, Leverett J-14 KIR 2504 Calkins, E., 1M., Vanderbilt 145 ASP 4411 Calkins, H. '45, 49 Farlow Rd., Newton BIG 2720 Cameron, N. '43, Leverett D-51 TRO 1489 Campbell, A. V., 3rd '44, Eliot C-43 TRO 7054 Campbell, J. P., Kirkland I-31 KIR 7176 Capeci...
...teachers raised Cain. They not only asserted that New York City's schools were so "dangerously" overcrowded that no teachers could be spared-a point wrathfully denied by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-but also stomped angrily, 1,000 strong, to the Board of Education meeting. The Board tried to placate them by electing as their new boss (to succeed the late Superintendent Harold G. Campbell) genial John E. Wade, 64, who had come up from the ranks as a city schoolteacher. Superintendent Wade tried to placate them by batting up a new scheme: instead of firing 125 teachers, retire...
When asked if a reserve store of sugar had been built up to cover emergencies, Durant said, "We don't heard at Harvard." Robert C. Benchley, Jr. '43, President of the Lampoon, announced that the Lamp "would raise cain" to alleviate any sugar shortage...