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...upon the House on Wednesday, caused Roy L. Westcott, Director of the University Dining Hall, to announce that here after all dining halls will keep their silverware under look and key. Tightlipped, spoonless authorities would not reveal the nature of the punishment which will be meted out to the culprit, if apprehended...
Proof of Harvard's alertness in matters of defense was afforded Saturday by the apprehension of a suspicious-looking character in the act of taking a picture of Widener with a foreign camera. Accused of being a Nazi agent, the culprit was taken into custody by the Yard Cops...
Ambassador Litvinoff put the situation very neatly. And in making it plain that Russia would not open up an Eastern Front, he also gave a good reason: "Hitler is the chief culprit in all the present wars, the inspirer of the whole gang, and the destruction of Hitler would mean the end of them all." The U.S. and Britain, now fighting the whole gang, understood and agreed...
Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...near the turn of the century was neatly cut from its moorings, leaving the rest of the long, pipe-like structure which supported it untouched. The information was received at this office at too late an hour for Lampoon editors to be questioned regarding who they think the agile culprit may be; however, Yard police said they had found no clues or hints as to the thief or thieves' identities...