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...differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown of municipal, state, and even federal administration...
...favorite Hollywood publicity dodges has been the practice of filling pictures with those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked...
...June Mercury is a lively specimen of its genus, somewhat above the ordinary in general interest. It commences with a salve in the good old Mencken style, written by H. E. Buchholz, and entitled "The Pedagogues at Armageddon," Like most of the Mercury's outbursts on the subject of the American educator, the article in question consists largely of well-calculated contumely and vicious satire; its groundwork of fact, however, is sufficient; those who have followed the inane peregrinations of the National Education Association during the last few years will be only too delighted to read a whole-hearted...
This elation has its firm basis, as President Hibben intimated, in an understanding sense of the situation. it is not related etymologically to the more ancient word meaning elasticity, which gave Linnacus the name for a family or genus of beetles "possessing the power of springing upward from a supine position for the purpose of falling upon their feet." Elation is a state of exultant, unceasing struggle for the highest things of the human mind and soul. The colleges and universities may become centres of such "elation" amid the world's depression. New York Times...
...Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull.? Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6½ tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...