Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Erskine, Columbia University professor, musician, novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve). Reason: Prohibition...
...first he was amused and pleased. Then he was hot and bothered. "Give a fellow a chance," he said, as he waded through Demos towards the water. His friends had to get the life guards' rowboat and take him around the point to Sea Gate. That large portion of Demos which had failed to see its Nominee, or to show him to its sweethearts, its wives, its offspring, was disappointed. The other part had something to tell about...
...Organized, protected prostitution is quickly passing out of American life and that issue is not vital. But vital or not, I could not in good conscience press this issue, realizing that Governor Smith, whom I greatly admire for his many high qualities, feels that my charges question the purity of his motives...
Technique. The June raids in New York had been sensational because they were directed at what is supposed to be the inmost-vortex of the pleasure-chasing current of American life. Last week's developments were notable because they transmitted a realistic picture of that vortex to millions of people who had never seen it except through the falsifying medium of cinema...
...Federal agents who had worked up the evidence told just how they had acted and what they had seen and heard in the liveliest night life in Manhattan...