Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risque play all through; the moments of bogus high comedy which mar the efforts of the smartly cynical gentry are pleasingly absent. The theme is the ancient and unfailing one of seduction--but without any philosophy or moralizing, except for the rationalizing in which any normal man might indulge when unexpectedly surprised in a bedroom with his lithesome stenographer; this bedroom is--as it should be--the center around which the action of the play revolves. It is in this fatal bedroom that Warren Pascal is caught when his fiancee and her brother unexpectedly arrive; poor Warren with admirable technique...
Reasons for this sharp drop in public interest in NRA were plentiful. General Johnson has ceased giving daily dramatic performances in Washington. Normal working hours have softened his temper and his tongue. There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...buildings connected with the Harvard Athletic Association were closed yesterday at two o'clock by order of William J. Bingham '16, Director of Physical Education. Since few students were using them, and since suspension of trolley service would have kept the employees from reaching home at the normal hour. Bingham allowed them to leave early...
Bridgewater Normal will be the opponent of the Junior Varsity basketball team this afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building at 4.30 o'clock...
...June 5) will have only a slight advantage over newcomers. The 65 characters have grown to more than 100 but their relationships remain comparatively simple. In many cases they are still unaware that they inhabit the same city-book. Some of them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself...