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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barred from a scheduled visit to the birthplace of Frances Willard* because the present occupants were quarantined with mumps, the delegates regaled themselves with such intricate concoctions as "Mug o' Joy," "Blackbird Giggles," "Sawdust Specials" (innocuous potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed a pageant called "World Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected...
...inner sympathy" with the British, he indicated, and his "respect" for the "great achievements of the French nation" that caused Herr Hitler throbbingly to ask: "Why should this war in the west be fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range...
...lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...
Campus "jelly joints" cater to this nickel trade from breakfast time to closing hours. Loud music from the nickelodeon, the smell of frying hamburgers, the ever-present nickel machines, and trays full of cigarette butts characterize these gathering places...
...regard to the present neutrality law, Professor Elliott feels that it should be repealed...