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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crime Club is not a drink, a name for Tier 44 in the east wing at Leavenworth, or the latest headline symbolism for the first half of the Yankee batting order. The Crime Club is the Literary Guild idea, restricted, to the less aesthetic paths of murder, rape and arson. "A jury of mystery experts examines manuscripts--and from these the great ones are selected...
...been since his oracular "choice" of last August. Some observers believed that he might utter an Absolute Negative before or at the Budget meeting, for one of two purposes: to clear the track completely for Candidate Hoover, or to discountenance finally the Coolidge-anyway movement, of which the latest slogan, attributed last week to Committeeman Hilles and friends in New York, was: "Coolidge or chaos." Others said the Absolute Negative, or perhaps a Loyal Acquiescence, would go to the convention in Chairman Butler's pocket, in a letter from Mr. Coolidge to be read at the critical moment...
...have failed to answer the first request and those who received the latest edition of appointments are urged to reply by the return mail or before the beginning of next week...
More subtle is the latest story, "Dis-order and Early Sorrow" (1926) in which nothing happens so melodramatic as suicide, in fact nothing at all, except convulsive disappointment in a child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either...
...Crimson golfers have had a good season to date, having won eight matches and lost only one. Last week they downed the Bruin team at Providence, 6 to 3, in their latest victory...