Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans, trying to reform their party under fire, had ditched the machine professionals, persuaded four outstanding amateurs in politics to be their candidates (TIME, Sept. 26). Less wisely, the Republicans launched what the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer labeled a "false" and "vicious" campaign against Dilworth, trying to prove that he was a crony of Communists. Philadelphia's two major news papers, both staunchly Republican, endorsed Dilworth...
...Captain John G. Crommelin broke a whole lockerful of Navy rules & regulations, was duly suspended from duty. Both Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Navy Secretary Francis Matthews were hot for court-martialing him. Last week Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, decided on a smarter, less severe move...
...York Daily News reported "Sweaty exorcists are having less and less success . . . at the self imposed job of routing students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the Square and mutter gibberish in unison the night before a so-called big game." The Daily News as right, for it has been spirits not spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported...
Kirkland House, not being satisfied with Concentration Dinners, holds deconcentration dinners as well. Classics majors get to talk about Social Relations or Chemistry concentrators may discuss world problems with someone from the Government Department. Other Houses have tried Concentration Dinners with less success. But not all the Houses have given the idea of informal education a chance...
...apparently seeing a psychic likeness, takes her over body and soul. Miss Lockwood heaves and sobs in demonic possession for most of the rest of the film, until she is saved for the world of sunlight and for that Nice Young Man by the intervention of another and even less convincing apparition...