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American education reached new heights the other day when the Hobo College of Chicago conferred degrees upon 150 sons of the road. Amid impressive ceremonies featured by a baccalaureate address and a class song rendered in the quaint idiom of the freight car, the graduates filed solemnly up to the rostrum to receive mimeographed diplomas solemnly admitting them to the fellowship of educated...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...
...whole the play was disappointing. The vogue of Mr. Arlen has thinned with the increasing opinion that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...
Last week, actors of high and low degree, literati, publicists crowded into the Church of the Transfiguration (for that is its official name), listened to John Drew; Canon Dwelly of Liverpool Cathedral assisted at the unveiling of a window to the memory of Joseph Jefferson. On it the idiom is inscribed...
...that time, Joseph Jefferson was the most famous actor on Broadway. Said he: "God bless the Little Church Around the Corner." His remark became the sobriquet of the church and an English idiom...