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...because of a belief that one is right, is understandable. To acknowledge a glaring and discreditable wrong and to refuse to repair it, is incredible. We feel, with the CRIMSON, that the incident is Harvard's stigma and is indefensible, but we propose to act. It is queer that we should be charged with adding to the stigma by publicity. The CRIMSON has acknowledged a glaring injustice and only a perverted view could see an open avowal and correction of the wrong as unfavorable in the public eye. Our course is the only one now available by which the stigma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Scrubbing | 5/7/1930 | See Source »

...mysteriously salable banalities of musical comedy are further exemplified in Jonica by a song entitled "I Want Someone," the queer facial contortions of Joyce Barbour, who really can be pretty, and a wedding parade in which the girl from the convent is propelled, by coincidence, into matrimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 21, 1930 | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

Holy rites of celebration would be secretly performed in the six-spired Mormon Temple, open only to Mormon church-members in good standing (i.e., approved as moral and right-minded by their local pastors-'"bishops"), and thus long supposed by superstitious Gentiles* to conceal queer ceremonies of polygamous import. But Mormonism is by no means merely a closeted, holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Centenary | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Poet Carl Sandburg's fairy tales are neither as popular nor as winsome as English Author Alan Alexander Milne's, but they have their own queer charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Prattle | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beauty In Distress | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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