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...suppression of vice and immorality" was passed in New Jersey providing that no "wordly business or employment, nor any interludes, plays for gain, dancing, singing, fiddling or other music for the sake of merriment" should be carried on upon the Sabbath day. In 1923, this statute still remains on the books: zealous but simple-minded ladies and gentlemen invoke it to suppress Sunday movies and theatres, while paleoxed legislators seek daily to add more awe of the vintage of 1798 to the already complete collection...
Eddie Cantor is, of course, the master of ceremonies. He is inordinately funny. The only criticism brought against him was that his virtually permanent possession of the stage made a monotony of merriment...
...press: " Three young men from Oxford now debating with American university students seem likely to explode an ancient theory- namely, that the British lack wit . . subtle shafts of irony ... the house in merriment . . . seldom raised their voices . . . preferred reason to fervor...
...most Harvard students the vagaries of the Ku Klux Klan have in the past been rather "an innocent source of merriment" than a cause for terror or agitation; only a small minority of unbalanced impressionists has been drawn within the folds of the "Invisible Empire" by the glamor and prejudice of its appeal. And there is little reason to believe that these conditions are radically altered in the present. Unless Harvard individualism--or Harvard indifference, as the critics have it,--is a thing of the past, the University will never be swept by the cheap and ignorant iraternalism of Kleagles...
Fire Prevention Week has come to join the long list that began with Safety First Week and has reached its zenith in Peace Weeks and Courtesy Weeks. And like the others it is more likely to serve as "an innocent source of merriment" than as a cause for sober thought. After all the idea of a calendar in which every week is the occasion for a Clean Up Drive in Zenith or a Fire Prevention Drive throughout the country, is amusing enough to the superior undergraduate...