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Davison cabled the club's resignation from the Intercollegiate Glee Club on the grounds that the selections were "silly sentimental mush" and not in accord with the dignity of any college contest. Chief offender was the prize song, Horatio Parker's "The Lamp in the West...
...Eliminate the sentimental mush or we withdraw!" Davison's ultimatum read. "The programms stands as originally submitted," ran the reply...
...Greek," eventually became a professor of English and the world's No. 1 collector of Browning. In term, white-haired Dr. A. used to rise at dawn each day for a five-mile prebreakfast hike, taught with explosive severity ("Son, you sound like you have a mouthful of mush"), worked with such ferocity that he left the rest of the campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there'll be no necessity to miss classes"). To earn money for his collecting, he started the Armstrong Educational Tours, raised a fortune for manuscripts, first...
...cracking is absolutely right. Both are bad and should not be taught. While it may be true that safe cracking is taught to locksmiths and that a knowledge of communist theory and practice is a vital tool today, we can not afford to take the chance that crooks and mush head idealists will use these tools for bad. Therefore, we must do our best to forget what we know about Communism. An operational difficulty may arise when no American remembers what Communism was. The doubters will start wondering if Communism was bad or not. Therefore, I think that we should...
...programs themselves, and sometimes worries for fear one of his satires may make a performer unhappy. Last week he was cheered to get a letter from The Lonesome Gal (TIME, June 26, 1950), assuring him that she was delighted with a recent cartoon that showed an adolescent snarling "Mush!" at her honeyed comments...