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Despite the connotation of the title, the play has absolutely nothing to do with the eighteenth amendment, and jokes on the already outworn subject of prohibition have been strictly barred...
...satisfaction of exposing the sins of their weaker brothers is not enough to account for it. Some other impelling force has more than once led the prohibition officers to pose as internal revenue collectors and thus obtain evidence of violations. In their eagerness to uphold the dignity of the eighteenth amendment, they cheerfully break every other law with a clear conscience. Yet why they should take prohibition enforcement so much to heart, is one of the enigmas of our commonwealth...
...weekly is full of talk of Ben Jonson and Coffee House, of the Cock Horse and The Merle, of the inaccessibility of professors and the limitations of the 47 Workshop; casual varied and good-humored talk that exhales a faint eighteenth century aroma and is mildly entertaining. Its anonymity is qualified by the cautious statement that "the names of the editors will be given to anyone in authority on written application." Whether this refers to the Postmaster General or the Dean's office is not clear, but neither of them need be disturbed by "The Aristocrat," to judge from...
...Expositions of Chamber Music for the current year in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall at 8.15 this evening. This is the last concert, except for one on April 13, during the year, and will consist of selections from German composers ranging from the work of Bach in the early eighteenth century to Brahms in the late nineteenth...
Back in the middle of the eighteenth century as historians tell us to satisfy the unscrupulous ambition of a European ruler, redskins sealped one another on the shores of the Great Lakes. The day of the Indian is past, but the inhabitants of America are still quarreling over matters about which they are often as ill-informed as was the ignorant aborigine a century and a half ago. Love of the old country, of race and traditional institutions, leads us to accept mere rumor as fact...