Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while engaged in an editorial campaign against the American Legion, the Yale News branched off to assert with dogmatic pessimism that American politics are "just too dirty" and so corrupt that all self-respecting college men refuse to consider them as a worthy occupation. The editorial voices perfectly the feeling of hazy helplessness which overcomes the average undergraduate upon viewing with superficial haste the maze of American government as a possible occupation...
...find there way into the tar barrel along with the charcoal sheet? They might, And anyway does a noose around the neck convey the full meaning of Lowell House? So rumour has it that there may be a bauble cast in deathless bronze which neither moth nor dust can corrupt, something a little distinctive on the watch chain. But this is only rumour and Harvard must wait until at last Lowell House will find some charm...
...festival in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Goethe. His son, Benvenute, will also be present along with Dr. F. W. J. Heuser of Columbia University, president Lowell, Professors Sigurthur Nordal, J. D. M. Ford, E. K. Rand Taylor Starct, and Mr. Paul Bacon. Corrupt city government precipitation two innocent younsters into prison, the girl to be held for life the boy to the hanged. There are harrowing days of suspense while the two look for evidences to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best décor. Shadows of the gallows darken...
...Ladies of the Big House" is meant as a prison film to end prison films, the definitive edition of convict sages. It is adequately enough constructed, and well provided with dramatic suspense. But there is nothing new about it. A corrupt city government precipitates two innocent youngsters into prison, the girl to be held for life, the boy to be hanged. There are borrowing days of suspense while the two look "for evidence to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best decor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells...
...gloomy, wrathful day, gloomy as the days of the 13th Century friar who cried Dies Irae! Capitalism totters. Socialism? Communism? No, man is corrupt, his society is decadent, even his systems of worship are sterile. . . . There is still God. But are there not many Gods?-the Jehovah of the Fundamentalists, the incense-wrapped God of the Anglo-Catholics, the polite God of the Episcopalians, the companionable God of such new faiths as Dr. Frank Buchman's Groups? There are also many prophets, cultists, purveyors of fancy panaceas to the dejected. They are in the market place...