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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
Then, in 1908, President Jesup died and Dr. Osborn dutifully took his place. The post meant more work. That he recognized was good for him, for it forced him to reorganize his activities. He did so and had time to write his books. In 1910 he wrote three, last year three and in between a half dozen others. They, more than the works of any other recent writer, have served to make unspecialized readers think scientifically...
...Haunted House. People have a peculiar and rather disagreeable way of reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted...
...that there has been no signal contribution to Christmas music in the last few years. Except for the one hymn of Phillips Brooks which is a part of every Christmas, the songs that are sung are those of men of two and three and more centuries ago, when Christmas meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields, is proof that...
Behind the German Lines. Diagrams are usually dull, including those which patriots and students kept during the War, marking on maps with little pins the lines of the combatants. It was hard to remember which pins stood for which side or what the irregular graph of a strategy meant in terms of life and death. In this picture, which UFA began to make in 1915, the lines of the diagrams move themselves, like animated cartoons. Neither a newsreel nor a story, it is a history of the War, seen from the German side, but impartially; most of the battle scenes...