Word: duffus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TOMORROW NEVER COMES-Robert L. Duffus-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50) In one of those pleasant South American republics where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked...
...with a discussion of "the new social code of the student and its effects on academic life" that Mr. R. L. Duffus in the New York Times Magazine concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside...
...malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step, has chosen to be silent. This is no occasion for creating precedent. Indeed, one may believe that undergraduate drinking is Epicurean rather than vicious, that the attitude toward delinquencies of Mr. Duffus' "other sort" are reasoned if not Comstockian. But as far as the fact goes, the optimistic critics must be reminded that three all important factors in the upholding of the old code were conscientious acceptance of conventional morality, religious scruple, and fear rising out of ignorance. And today--those bulwarks...
Indignant at Einstein's reticence about his most recent discovery, Robert L. Duffus, writing in The New York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...