Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing by Behrens (courtesy of Louis Silvers) but underneath is the one-hundred- per-cent, red-blooded, honest-to-God frame and speaking voice of H. N. Pratt '24, and our personal prediction is that if he doesn't make a name for himself in the performance in Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington, it is no fault of the Pratts. Anyhow, one thing leads to another, one act leads...
...Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines. After his failure men gave up trying to propel themselves through the air by their own force and resorted to the aid of the new invention, the machine. With this they have...
...militarists) prepared for peace by preparing against war. Tiny Switzerland is not a convincing analogy. Germany is the conspicuous recent example, but there are plenty of others. Japan, for instance, lived many centuries in external peace, but, since acquiring the "protection" of a modern army and a militarist frame of mind, has engaged in three foreign wars since 1894. Men die and a nation suffers in a war of aggression, even a winning war, just as surely as in a war of defence. Ideals suffer more...
...brief recorded years human na- ture, contrary to General Edwards, is the only thing that has changed. The frame of mind that alarms him of itself proves this. Our young men and women do well in exercising themselves to find out how the peace of this nation and of all nations may honorably be maintained. It is a noble pursuit and in the long run far better for this country and the world than the more alluring oratory of war. It is, moreover, founded on courage and hope, while the exhortations of the militarist are those of timidity and despair...
...Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted on perjured testimony. Not since the Mooney case has there been such universal agitation in labor and radical circles over an alleged frame...