Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes a painful duty to speak of something which has been apparent ever since the rumpus over the Princeton number: What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J. the fourth of the William Balden Noble series of lectures on "The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Light of Psychology and Mysticism" will be given by the Reverend Dr. Charles E. Raven, Canon of Liverpool Cathedral...
...Drys (Methodists, Congregationalists and Presbyterians) sought to elect representatives to the Provincial Legislature who would maintain the ten-year-old 0. T. A (Ontario Temperance Act) under which only "native wines and light beers" can be sold...
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Hervey Allen - Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan...
WITH the overshoe era upon us and snow upon the overshoe era, fires crackle in grates all too cognizant of Dickensian tradition in their inconstancy of warmth and books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...