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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to ignoring Prohibition, the most polite and popular form of U. S. lawbreaking is Beating the Customs. Prime practitioners, in the amateur field, are wealthy ladies who count it a fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
Four Feathers (Paramount). Feature pictures of animal life in unfamiliar places have been fairly popular even when there was no story in them. It was natural that some producer should try to combine an authentic panorama of some wild continent with a romance of gallantry, love. Baboons getting away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year...
...Pseudo-science ? the brain-weight theory of white superiority to the Negro. Scientists have exploded the theory that the heaviest brain is necessarily the most highly developed. But the idea persists in the popular mind...
Latest arrival in popular priced eight cylinder cars was last week announced by Studebaker Corp., which will make a Dictator Eight in addition to its Dictator Six. It will be a companion car to the company's President and Commander Eights. Price range (six models) is from $1185 to $1435. Said Studebaker's President Erskine: "Motor world today wants eights. . . . In 1928 only 10% of passenger car engines were eights . . . today...
...will be well if those in charge of future elections have seen these smiles and realize that they express a somewhat tolerant amusement which is far more dangerous to an organization's prestige than any more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...