Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None the less, there is a place at Harvard for a monthly which will never drop to the levels to which the Advocate descends in its most evil moments, because it does not aspire to the heights which Mother Advocate sometimes reaches. There is a real need for a magazine which is not first literary, but first Harvard, which can publish controversial articles, such as are present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print...
...suicide evil is the most sinister specter of our national life, next to murder, which marks the U. S. as the most murderous nation on the face of the globe,'' wrote Consulting Statistician Dr. Hoffman for this week's Spectator. "There is the most urgent need for the organization of a national society for the study and prevention of suicide based on sound principles of voluntary service to render aid and advice to those in desperate need...
...beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer of marriage, had him beaten up. On the night that she was to announce her betrothal to a rich and eminently eligible young man, Don Slocum appeared at her fancy dress ball clad as Mickey Mouse...
...travel as a bridge over the depression is to bring any real advantages, be young avoiding the evil of overcrowding the professions, a new fashion for the "American in Paris" must be developed, and the Gershwin tradition abandoned: Americans, like the rude British, have been in the habit of carrying their bath-tubs and their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will...
...death outside his office window, he did not bother to open his window and look out. But Artist Bennett finally revolted, finding that "to edit a lady's paper, even a relatively advanced one, is to foster conventionality and hinder progress regularly once a week." As a lesser evil he chose to earn money by writing sensational fiction, with serious work on the side. In 1899 he was able to chalk up, as he did at the end of every year, his grand total of words written-335,340 for that year (raised...