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...grieves me to have to call to the attention of the student body a situation which within itself is a mute accusation of the collective integrity of the House residents. However, I consider it my duty to bring this ugly thing to the light so that the situation may be rectified and the silent accuser removed forever from our Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

High spots in the performance were the sterling blunderbuss-shooting of Mr. Murdock and the valiant actions of Mr. Jackson, whose mute eloquence brought the audience to its feet in wild acclaim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Comedy Receives An Enthusiastic Reception | 3/19/1935 | See Source »

...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/19/1935 | See Source »

This is no mere unpractical philosophy. It is America's hope. Large body-guards bear mute witness to the possibility of the first part. As for the counterfeiting, criminals have recently developed the art to an almost perfect degree. Several dies were found for producing fifty cent pieces only recently. Perhaps crime will make its last beautiful gesture to us before it is obliterated from this country forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLAN TO END PLANS | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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