Word: cons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has time on its side and time is the father of prestige. Harvard can afford to listen patiently to all the prevailing pro's and con's. It can reject them because it tried them out two centuries or three centuries ago and found them wanting. It can become their champion because it discovered that they were reasonable and that they worked while Cromwell was still wrangling with the Crown for the sovereignty of England...
Author Vandercook plays a detectifiction con-game against an exotic background. A lover of tropic islands (he has visited and written about Haiti, Trinidad, the South Seas), last year he spent three months on Viti Levu, largest of the Fiji Islands. He gives a first-hand picture of its gigantic, fuzzy-haired natives, once cannibals, now peaceable wards of the British Empire; its island-capital, Suva; its still undomesticated rivers, mountains, jungle. Murder in Fiji will cause hardened readers few authentic thrills but should throw them into pleasurable fijits of suspense. After two murders with cannibalistic garnishings, it looks...
...Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"Mozart *"Unfinished" Symphony, in B minor Schubert Second Movement--Andante con moto *Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner "La Nuit Revecue" ("The Night Relieved") (After the Poem, "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken) Bainbridge Crist *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"Merry Widow," Waltzes Lehar *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia" Delibes Selections checked '(*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...important did Soviet authorities con-sider the case last week that Chief Public Prosecutor André Vishinsky conducted it himself. Though Semenchuk cried shrilly that he was a visitor from Mars, manifested other symptoms of madness. Prosecutor Vishinsky was clearly out to make Wrangel's Governor an example to other remote Red bosses prone to autocracy...
...proletariat echo and re-echo from the cavernous walls of Randolph and Russell like raging surf. Even the toffs, ensconced high above, share in the racing fever, as Budweiser can chases Ballantine and Croft madly down the street. These preliminary races, according to track veterans, may send Con. or Am. Can to record highs on the exchange, as the relative merits of the steeds are discovered. The dark blue of Pabst has not yet proved itself a winning color over the dappled brown of Scotch Ale, and upsets by unknowns may occur momentarily, according to the best advices...