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...Another of his points: "Labor needs a group of educators ... for through them we may attain the end of teaching in our public schools, the truths about the great industrial world. . . . Today any fool with a silly idea can almost always sell it to some board of education and clutter up the schools with a lot of unessentials." Only about two score unionized teachers heard Mr. Coughlin. The teachers' union is not large yet. But their program is vigorous. They are against: construction of schools with more than 200 pupils capacity and classes of more than 30; military training...
...memoirs were neither rowdy nor pornographic, but the measured attempt of an intelligent man to comment cool-mindedly upon his own career. None of the fustian sentiment, like the smell of an old stage wardrobe-none of the gasconnading, the pomposities, the how-well-I-remember-the-night that clutter most actors' reminiscences-nor yet the blatancy that distinguishes those of certain editors-were discoverable in the suave, faintly amused memories of John Barrymore...
...impending trial at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John T. Scopes for giving instruction in Evolution, contrary to a state law, continued to clutter the press with reiteration of the issues at stake, which adherents of both sides of the case stoutly believed would "educate" the public up to the grave importance of the trial and its everlasting effect upon U. S. pedagogy, science, morals, history, religion...
...lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything" in Europe: "Artificial sunlight aids the health of London's Zoo monkeys. Fatal accidents from unexploded shells still continue in the French war zone. Mountains of American autos, boxed, too vast to house, clutter the Thames banks; new tariff rate July 1. The top hat, bashed by the War, is dusted off and blocked again for wear. In one week in April, 313 died of smallpox in Bombay. Over $24,000,000 was taken to South Africa in four years by farmer immigrants attracted...
...magazines most generally excoriated were: Artists and Models, La Vie Parisienne, Hot Dog, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly-booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn...