Word: harps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common American conception of such an individual comes from a mass of propaganda circulated abroad by certain malicious agencies with offices in New Haven, Princeton, Hanover and other provincial cities. This picture of the Harvard man, now generally taken for granted along with Mrs. Landon's harp and the Constitution, is the product of the same sort of mind that thinks every Italian should look like Mussolini and almost every Russian should wear a beard...
When San Franciscans loudly applauded his harp-playing, famed Pantomimist Arthur ("Harpo") Marx stepped to the footlights, said "Thank you," broke a 13-year public silence...
Would any other oldtime California tobacconists care to enlarge the Phelan cigar legend?-ED. Mrs. Landon's Harp String...
...must seek everywhere for a balance in our teaching and our work. . . . Often we defeat ourselves not by saying a thing, but by saying it too much! Ere long we create a feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God! . . ." At this plea for moderation, the Methodist delegates laughed and applauded. They also applauded a resounding denunciation of "the forces of inebriety" and a reference to the projected reunion of North- ern, Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite...
...will be fortunate indeed for those who attend Harvard in the next few years if Professor Kittredge can be induced from time to time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...