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...spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture"; but tells how to make it and adds: "This will make three cocktails if there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Berkeley. When anyone outside the state thinks of the University of Califor nia he usually thinks of Berkeley. Within the state it is a moot point, depending largely upon which end of the Commonwealth one lives in. Southern Californians jealously defend the autonomy of the University of California at Los Angeles* (whose commencement occurs the end of this month), and point with pride to their new plant, call attention to the fact that U.C.L.A. is now empowered to give a four-year college course. But the unit at Berkeley is the parent organization. An outgrowth of the College of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: California's Investment | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...minor love-story which does not obtrude upon the main theme. The story covers a period of some fifteen years, and for once the clothing of the characters is not anachronistic. The acting throughout is convincing, the direction good, and the general effect pleasing. It is a moot question, to be answered by psychologists, whether or not the ending was improbable. On the whole, the picture ranks high, as any of Miss Chatterton's must...

Author: By W.p. DE M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1930 | See Source »

...would come slowly enough so that no man would be forced to live in a House who does not want to. A scant two years is hardly enough to win everyone involved over to a new scheme however sound or attractive, and when one deals with such an admittedly moot point as the House Plan the chances for wholesale conversion would seem to be considerably less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING THE SPEED LIMIT | 1/7/1930 | See Source »

Whether or not Sophocles is responsible for the music is a moot point. Some say yes; some say no; others dismiss the matter with a few well chosen cuss-words. The jokes at all events are Mr.Weller's. They are of a post-Sophoclean vintage, and considerably above the average...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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