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The Bishop need not blush for youth's pained surprise when it hears this moral monster, or expect an era of free love to be ushered in. Students of college age no longer have to go back of the barn to whisper the facts of life. His is a naive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRUNES AND PRISMS | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

- When a captain gets an order to stop, hears the sound of a blank shell being fired, sees a puff of smoke, he usually stops. If he does not stop, a real shell may cross his bow. Real shells whistle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pleasure Dome | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

It's a pleasure to see Montgomery doing something besides his usual playboy roles. Those who know the star always have claimed that he could do a real job if the studio would only give him a chance. The critics confirmed this in their reviews of "Night Must Fall" but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

Harvard hears with deep regret of the death of Edward S. Harkness, a sympathetic and modest patron of American education for the past twenty years. At a time when the expansion of endowed universities seemed to have reached a standstill, it was Mr. Harkness's far-sightedness and generosity which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDWARD S. HARKNESS | 1/31/1940 | See Source »

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