Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crime Club is not a drink, a name for Tier 44 in the east wing at Leavenworth, or the latest headline symbolism for the first half of the Yankee batting order. The Crime Club is the Literary Guild idea, restricted, to the less aesthetic paths of murder, rape and arson. "A jury of mystery experts examines manuscripts--and from these the great ones are selected...
...Coolidge going to Wisconsin this summer. They recalled that at the 1924 G. O. P. convention the delegates from Wisconsin, which that year gave La Follette to the nation, were the only ones who did not join the joyful demonstration at the first mention of Mr. Coolidge's name...
...actual differences in individuals' opinions. But for the most part the chairman of each delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates...
Skidding slid into Manhattan via Pasadena, where it had been subjected to an amateur performance. On the opening night, its author who rejoices in the name of Aurania Rouverol, made a demure speech before the curtain, saying how surprised she was that Broadway producers should have interested themselves in her homely frivolities...
...Education Board founded by John Davison Rockefeller lost its Director of Studies and Medical Education. This official resigned because he wanted to speak freely about educational matters, to criticize constructively without straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills...