Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe in Paris, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, published his much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining "a precocious child, without becoming a man," of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster...
...family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual rather than a clipping from a Y.M.C.A. pamphlet, the play would be decidedly engrossing. Under the circumstances, it is a capable but not a compelling contribution to the season's lists...
...structure. Here the former made a brief address describing the things that had been sealed within the corner stone. These included a photograph of President Emeritus Briggs, a picture of President Comstock, the names of those who contributed towards the cost of the new dormitory, a recent Radcliffe pamphlet, the Red Book and the latest copy of the Radcliffe News. President Emeritus Briggs then delivered a short speech of dedication and fixed the cornerstone in place with a trowelful of mortar...
...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...
...oldest existing musical organization in America began its existence at Harvard is related in a pamphlet entitled "The Early History of the Pierian Sodality of 1808," which has recently been sent to every Sodality alumnus in the country whose address is known, by the Pierian Sodality Alumni organization. The pamphlet reprints the article by the courtesy of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, which contained the article in the March issue of 1908 on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Pierian Sodality...