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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selling a copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GANG | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...Captain F. D. Sharp, polo coach, is starting practice early, for the first game does not come until May 18, when the Crimson team rides against the cadets at West Point. However with a good indoor record behind them the chances for a highly successful outdoor campaign look bright and therefore Coach Sharp is anxious to get his team in the best possible shape early. Furthermore there will be the job of filling the place of Captain F. A. Clark '29, who as crew captain will have to devote his entire time to that sport. Clark will miss the Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO SQUAD OPENS OUTDOOR PRACTICE | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...facts contained in the CRIMSON'S editorial on this subject were drawn largely from this letter, written from Rhodes House, Oxford. The quotation drawn from this letter. "In consequence (the scholarships being tenable specifically for three years) there has been a tendency to look askance at any scholar who has ventured to resign at the end of his second year as at one who has let his committee down," seemed at the time of writing ample justification for the CRIMSON's stand on this point. The expression "social sin" employed by the CRIMSON was not meant to indicate that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...hard for anyone who has not been blind to realize what a thrill it is not to have to see everything. It is really marvelous not to look at a lot of things and people that you don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind & Gay | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Indoor Architecture | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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