Word: myths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GAVE THE WORLD SYPHILIS?-The Haitian Myth-Richmond C. Holcomb M D - Froben...
...Simpson: "For Queen of England [King Edward had chosen], an itinerant, shopsoiled twice divorcee with two ex-husbands living. . . . She came too far below, she clashed too crudely, with the nation's idea and ideal, dream and myth of feminine royalty. . . . She would not do. The comedown from Queen Mary to Queen Wally was too steep...
...Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...
...witnessing in the Italy of today. It is something quite different; and the correct description of what is might be "The Revival of Idealism". Mussolini and Italy are closer to Napoleon and the French Revolution. We are witnessing, in Italy's African campaigns, the first adventure of the Myth State, which has really as its basis, not the quest for raw materials, as was so in the imperialism of the last century, but the quest for glory, power, and the exaltation of the spirit. The revival, if any, is not as to imperialism, but as to the concept...
...actual measurement Adams House is closer to University Hall than any of the other Houses; but the statement that all Dunster men find it necessary to purchase bicycles is a myth. The physical isolation has always proved an advantage in the minds of most Dunster men, and by measurements other than actual, it has been established that Dunster is usually closer to Boston, Wellesley, Northampton, Poughkeepsie, the Crimson, Lampoon, and other centers of generally more interesting activity than University Hall...