Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edmund L. Morgan, Acting Dean of the Law School, said merely, "No, thank you, I don't care to comment on it." Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, likewise declined to express a public opinion as yet of the message. Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law in the Law School, whom many believe wrote both the bill and much of the message which accompanied it, said, "You're very kind to ask me, but I have not a word to say. No, NOT A WORD...
...schoolmaster, excise officer, husband, no man could have predicted the extent of the fame or the abuse that awaited him. Ranked by his contemporaries with Washington and Jefferson, he lived to see popular opinion of himself summed up by his onetime enemy, Journalist William Cobbett: "Men will learn to express all that is base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season on Paine when he referred...
...distinction. When the 1912 Reunion Committee met in Boston last month, the Boston committeemen sported cutaways, top hats and sticks to demonstrate that the local 1912 representation comprised elegant gentlemen not to be confused with Boston's traditional "sloppy dressers." In its first issue The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, advance Reunion pepsheet, last week published its estimate of the Class of 1912 long before the appearance of the autobiographical 25th anniversary report. Estimator was another ex-Lampoon wit, Humorist Robert Charles Benchley,* who proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class...
...changed the name of sauerkraut to 'Liberty Cabbage' ! "I haven't read any books. . . . "No spik Engliss." Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished almost nothing. "Of course, "retorted Harvardman Benchley in The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, "any member of 1912 could have predicted this ... as early as 1909." Cracked he: "If I were a calamity-howler, I could show that 72% haven't got $3,-000,000 to their name, 91% can't juggle, and that we haven't had a single President...
Died. Martin Johnson, 52, famed African explorer; of injuries received in a Western Air Express crash; in Los Angeles...