Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...
Notwithstanding a University decree prohibiting distribution of pamphlets in the Yard, and in spite of Cambridge statutes forbidding the free distribution of printed matter, the Socialist Club, undaunted, promises to put a fly-leaf in the local ointment on Friday. It is a pamphlet entitled "Welcome to Macdonald" and deals with the history of the English Labor party...
...more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...
...FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...
France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries having this class of treaty. All countries outside this category must pay duty in conformity with the new law. U. S. businessmen, petulant, were in-clined to see deliberate discrimination in the new tariff against them in favor of the Reich...