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...class is unable to boar the weight of this scholastic burdon for long--and from here its history rushes to the end, finishing inspite of this ugly Intrusion with the coy faminine giggle--"we leave the school choolt full of our youthful arrogance and know-it-all, and we fool ourselves to be the best yet. Just wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Hipping back & forth, letting her shoulder straps fall, she does a monstrously coy "stripteaser routine." She hits Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with a rowdy song: "I'm Salvation Sadie from Avenue A, Vending salvation and making it pay," rolling her eyes with a huge suggestiveness that is wholly antiseptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Although the description of these heavier Chemistry and Biology courses in the catalogue almost invariably trail off into a coy "six hours of laboratory work per week required", many instructors and almost all students will testify that this is an absurd statement. It is conclusively established that these courses require as much time as German B and French B; there are only two roads now open to the Departments involved. They may, on the one hand, grant two course credit for their courses: this, of course, will require other adjustments; requirements for concentration will have to be altered to correspond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

Every spring there appears on the bulletin boards of University Hall numbers of flamboyant posters proclaiming the joys of education in European universities. They cannot, however, be viewed as anything but a piece of coy irony on the part of the Dean's Office, for the general policy of the august personages therein enshrined has been to surround the transferral of credits from a foreign university with the vast, impenetrable, hyperborean mists of University red tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN STUDY | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

...members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner in which English arms are used by England's enemies on English soldiers, one feels that the solution to the whole thing is to give every soldier a block of the stock in the major arms company of his country, thus bringing him home rich and satisfying everyone concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

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