Word: misbehaviors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty...
...parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east, in a stately procession so that the weather changes every two or three days, cool winds from the moving highs, which are generally accompanied by fair weather, blowing...
Hopping mad at recent bombings of British ships by Spanish Insurgents, Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, never willy-worded himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn...
Several colleges reported that they were able to make the final decision in the dismissal of a student for misbehavior. Harvard, however, seemed to be the only one college that interested itself in the techniques of education. Certainly it is the only one that turns out several reports a year on these problems. Both Princeton and Columbia requested copies of some of the Harvard Council reports, Columbia being particularly interested in these relative to the tutorial system...