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After sifting 25,000 words submitted by more than 6000 contestants, Mr. Delcevare King of Quincy, staunch and ingenious disciple of Prohibition, has chosen the composite "scofflaw" as best describing those revolting, unregenerate citizens who delight in violating the Eighteenth Amendment. This word was selected because best of all it conjured up nauseating visions, true portraits of the lawbreakers, and suggested to every right-thinking person their deep and ignominious depravity. Just repeat "scofflaw" quietly several times; its deadly effect is immediately apparent. Anyone who applies the term to a fellow citizen will do well to follow the famous advice...
...People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth Amendment was passed...
...spend six times as much for soda and confections as we spend for military purposes, for tobacco nearly four times, for perfumery, jewelry and other items of adornment nearly five times, and for theatres, cabarets and similar amusements more than three times. Military preparations cost us, roughly, one-eighteenth of what we spend for luxuries, amusements and mild vices...
...year on the four great epic poets were of this nature, and their popularity among the undergraduate body attests the need for them which was felt. Extra-curriculum lectures will go far toward solving the problem of a host of students who wish to be more than specialists in "eighteenth century literature" or "money and banking...
Professor Albert Feuillerat, exchange professor from France, will give his eighteenth public lecture on Shakespeare in Emerson D at 4 o'clock today. The subject of this afternoon's lecture will be "Shakespeare's Attitude Toward Life...