Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the mailing of the CRIMSON'S Concentration Pamphlet and with President Lowell's impending talk on the very important subject of choosing a field, the members of the Freshman class prepare for a decision on which rests the remainder of their college work. For the past fortnight the CRIMSON has published articles written in an advisory and intimate manner by the heads of the various departments wherein the high lights and pitfalls of different specialties have been discussed. The, collection of these pieces into a unit in which the general system of concentration and its several divisions are considered...
...circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek to demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes of contraception, are discriminating buyers of pianos, automobiles, perfume and fine plumbing. And in a recent pamphlet designed to attract advertisers to the American Mercury, Mr. Mencken has had his shrewdest and cruelest fling of all at journalism: "The American literati of tomorrow will probably come out of advertising-offices instead of out of newspaper offices as in the past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone...
...dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over a fairly long period Anthony boasted that he had driven 15 persons to their death, a good number by suicide, others by an act of God. A lady in Philadelphia, mildly mad, wrote a pamphlet called The Wedding Night. Brought to justice by Comstock, she chose to exercise what she called Socrates' prerogative. Dr. Karl Reiland, eminent clergyman, wrote to the Roundsman: "You have hunted an honest, not a bad woman to her death. I would not like to have to answer...
Stimulation of international mindedness and the spread of Christianity are the two goals which are now avowed by the supporters of the Christian Federation. In the most recent pamphlet issued by the Federation, the need for direct material aid is admitted to have subsided, and the furtherance of effort working toward these ends is urged...
Bargain Poetry. One may now buy a pocketful of poets for less than the cost of a novel. Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, Poe, Whitman, Nathalia Crane, H. D.? these are ready, more are coming, prepared in essence on strong paper as a Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...