Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities has disappeared; part of it has died a natural death, part has been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice of a counter-attraction...
Alcohol is no longer the only commodity whose entry into the United States is forbidden by the customs office. A shipment of "Candide" has been banned by the collector of the port of Boston. Not because of the radical opinions expressed therein, but because the official found that certain portions of the volume were "dirty...
Local option has been hitherto the only means of keeping filthy literature from invasion of a certain district. The local watch and ward society bring the matter to the attention of police, who, after due deliberation, decide on the merits of the case. But now, silently, without amendment, national prohibition has arrived. Perhaps a law may follow, declaring a book legitimate of which not more than one half of one per cent, by pages, may be classed as filthy or obscene...
...extremely doubtful, if the event will precipitate a Franco-American war, but it is certain to cause worry in the breasts of students of literature who take their duties seriously. Will they resort to readeasies and readhouses for glances at the illicit pages of Voltaire? It is doubtful, for although the book, like alcohol, has been banned from entry into the United States, the book, like alcohol is still on sale in Boston...
...favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine, the men talk of poisons. There is a sudden feminine scream. The men rush out. The host quaffs his liqueur, slumps in his chair, dead...