Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting from scratch, Spaeth's Music for Fun (Whittlesley House, $2) tells how to make musical instruments out of bottles, tin cans, old bones and nails. For ambition-maddened readers it even goes a step further, telling how to make up a melody, "How to play the piano in no lessons." Suggester Spaeth even suggests how to make conversation about great composers. Sample conversational bung starters...
Exulted Edward Bruce at the show's opening: "It is a panorama of America triumphant, clear-eyed and unafraid. It smells as sweet as a new-mown field of clover." Less partial critics still found much to praise, noted a steady improvement from 1934, agreed that even if the SFA has yet to uncover a genius, it has uncovered plenty of talent...
...Dawdling is no sin: young children usually take from 30 to 40 minutes to eat, 20 to 25 minutes to an hour to fall asleep. It is sometimes all right to feed a child to avoid a scene even after he knows how to feed himself...
...Beverage alcohol (C 2 H 5 OH) does not cause cirrhosis of the liver, heart trouble, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, Bright's disease. It does not even cause d.t.s (the drunkard's deficiency in diet causes the illusion of snakes). It is only slightly habit-forming (smoking and overeating are far more...
...action is a pitifully puny-one. No one questions Browder's authority as a Communist because of this comparatively innocuous run-in with the law. No one seems to take Mr. Greene's objection seriously besides himself; it is uniformly ignored by his critics, who do not bother even to answer it. The Council on Academic Freedom flips it off by stating truly if tritely that "a man is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court...