Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baiting Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addressed the Advertising Club of New York last week on a subject of much concern to Red-baiters-radicalism in the colleges. He, a Yaleman, said that "pink doctrines" originate in eastern seaboard institutions. Ignoring the paradox, he also said that the "excessive extravagance" of U. S. school and college buildings is "merely imitated after the baronial and palatial halls of Harvard and Yale." Later: "Perhaps I should have included Princeton." Next day Col. McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew...
...column of items from the last month's magazines which concern Harvard, has been compiled for the magazine. Two editorials appearing are the following: "The Reception of T. S. Eliot at Harvard" is one which compares the literary movement in literature at Harvard and Cambridge Universities...
Economy Publishers of Tacoma, Wash. received and read the manuscript "with ever increasing pleasure and admiration for the author. My! how your characters live and breathe and walk out into the room before one ... !" The concern agreed to publish the book for $375, returning 40% of all royalties to Lottie Perkins...
Mother Blakeley's chief concern in life is her connection with the D. A. R. Father Blakeley, having neither ancestors nor job, moons disagreeably about the house. Sister Phyllis takes up with a gangling radio crooner (Ross Alexander), marries him during a night out. Brother Clay, Yale sophomore, discovers to his sorrow that the old song was entirely incorrect. He gets a New Haven waitress in trouble...
...institution so spiritual as the Harvard Advocate, mere physical appearance should be a negligible concern. Yet it is certain that the slightly dowdy front which it used to present to the public turned away many a possible supporter, and obscured whatever merits there were on the inside. With its April issue, the Intellectual Mother has said goodbye to all that and put on a most professional and appealing fancy dress. From having that vaguely apologetic look on the living-room table, it has progressed to actual self-assertion; and instead of being springy and recalcitrant in the hand...