Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment as trite as "darling." And as they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from their hillside lodgings, move on to Lausanne where there are hospitals, gaze at each...
...occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a year or so ago, "The Yale Daily News" issued a special number in which eminent graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula...
...when the Czechs, three fourths of whom are Catholics, celebrated as a national holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of John Hus five centuries ago. Since Heretic Hus had been burned for intimating that the anti-Christ could be found at Rome, the papacy was quick to express its resentment over this holiday and withdrew the Papal Nuncio from the Prague for almost a year...
...Subway Express. If a police inspector be summoned aboard a subway train and told that a man has been shot dead, it may well give him pause. If a medical examiner gets on a few stations down the line and declares that the killing resulted not from shooting but from electrocution a few moments beforehand, the inspector may well be dumbfounded. If the car lights are suddenly extinguished and a likely witness is riddled with bullets, the inspector may even be pardoned for surrendering his badge...
Birth Control is "the most dangerous subject on which the medical profession can express itself," Association President George Van Amber Brown dared to state. Honest, he repeated the popularly known fact that educated U. S. men and women generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women...