Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broad Esq. and The Retired Humorist, so that one cannot positively ascribe the views of either to the policy of the magazine. Mr. Liberal Broad puts up the trite defences used whenever the younger generation is attacked. The Retired Humorist replies a little more elaborately "the frequent actions of postal officials in forbidding these publications entry into the mails" and advocating "some wholesale expulsions" from the colleges...
...Retired Humorist, namely, Mr. Liberal Broad, does not, in this set debate, attempt to repute the allegation that college comics have "but two sources of inspiration, bootleg liquor and an unbridled sex motive". Nor does he object to the pernicious use on the adjective "freuent," applied to suppression by postal officials. He does not even suggest that postal officials are poor judges. Evidently Mr. Liberal Broad, does no., is a man of straw, capable only of trite generalization upon the questionable premise assumed by his adversary, that college comics and literary productions are rendolent with the risque...
...questions were placed only on the ballots cast by undergraduates and on the postal cards which were mailed to members of the Faculty, since they were pertinent only to members of the University directly connected with the College. On both the questions, the Faculty vote belied the theory that the undergraduate body is more eager to break tradition than are the professors...
Last week, "At Peace with the World and You" was played in Manhattan, a new song which purported to be the third of the series inspired by the composer's romance with the daughter of the President of the Postal Telegraph Company. The words follow...
Every year man moves more daringly through the air, developing his wings for the sake of adventure, commerce, faster postal services. Last week, besides the activities of pole-flyers (see SCIENCE), four major flights were winging...