Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are, however, open to all members of the University and of Radcliffe, no tickets being necessary for admission. They are not open to the public...
...free at any time by asking for a divorce card at a clerk's window would almost invariably make them want to stay together and enter upon the later, more carefully prepared step of having children. Procreative marriages would be made more difficult of dissolution than at present. Open and above-board birth control was, of course, essential to the scheme. The combined innovations would put an end to sexual and contraceptive "bootlegging"; would free modern youth of its "sex obsession...
...tame and scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin, for treatment...
...Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...
...DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS- Maxwell Struthers Burt-Scribner ($2). That this novel was still possible in the U. S. is a matter for great thanksgiving. It is a book about the "great open spaces" by an enlightened man. A strong, silent rancher marries a virtuous Manhattan chorus girl, loses her for a while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead...