Word: jersey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following article was written by Sylvan Groodman '27 and Lincoln Grils, Yale undergraduates, following an investigation of conditions among the textile strikers at Passaic, New Jersey. It is printed by special arangement with the Yale News...
...legions of culture and criticism. For the "New Republic" has found a champion of billboard beauty who dares to deny that nature is ever beautiful--that man, as exemplified by billboards is always vile. "This attitude," he writes, "is illogical and irreligious. There are vast stretches in New Jersey and Nebraska where billboards give life to dull vistas and a reminder that life is tolerably active elsewhere...
...here at last is proper championship for the maligned denizens of the broad highway. And the defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...
...morning in a marsh without "Even your best friend won't tell you" to worry the drab winged duck. Billboards may support nature admirably--it is only fair to realize how admirably they can nurse her failings. Yet for some they will never need to--nature, even in New Jersey or Nebraska, has an occasional good friend...
...political manager, by electing three governors in succession, each of them over the opposition of the political machine. Not until 1911 did he feel the time was opportune to enter national politics. He began to "interview" possible candidates. Late in the year he met Governor Wilson of New Jersey, and at once an intimacy sprang up between...