Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cohen wanted to find out what the police would do if he distributed his circulars, and now he knows; they object very much to having circulars distributed, and have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
...more simple minded may wonder at this action on the part of the Cambridge police, and object that the ordinance was not impartially enforced. In deed, a few days ago one could hardly walk a block without having handbills thrust at one, publishing remarkable opportunities in pressing and cleaning, and used car sales. And the police, as far as I could see, did not interfere with these gentlemen. But one cop took Cohen's circular, and the CRIMSON; says "About twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers...
...object of the film is to supply the demand among Harvard men all over the country that they be kept in touch with the University. Now that the film is available, it is especially valuable where men have not the time to return to Cambridge often. It was made during the fall and winter months of 1928-29 by the University Film foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler...
...Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American Relief Administration was going to contribute $500,000. Corollary object of the drive: to increase Girl Scout membership from...
...advice which he offers is as follows: (1) Don't allow the object of your desires to know she or he holds such a position of honor. (2) Make her or him jealous; and (3) Make yourself scarce. The advice certainly sounds good to the unexperienced ear, but it acts as the proverbial boomerang in Richard's case, which is a lucky thing for otherwise the good picture would have to have an unexpected ending and that would obviously be impossible...