Word: lid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...
...forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
...lid will be raised on the Freshman tennis season today, when Coach Cowles' pupils will meet in the Freshman Gymnasium at 2 o'clock for their initial practice. The men will be assigned practice sessions of one-half hour each, and will practice twice each week...
...come with the abolition of compulsion. In the recent past, daily services were worse than a joke-blasphemy under the name of religion. The men would cough, read books and magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad." Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston Herald upon the effect of a ruling (TIME...
What is happening here? Is England on a cultural tobbogan sliding to the level designated for the United States; or has the lid come off when the pot started boiling, exposing the fact that the ingredients are much the same the world over? Perhaps the question will be debarred in the London papers, as an after-thought...