Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bachelor Father. "Legitimate" is a phrase used to describe those stage productions which are neither cinemas nor vaudeville acts; it is perhaps paradoxical that legitimate plays have of late shown an increasing tendency to concentrate upon the question of illegitimate children. Plots are hung often upon the query; ''Whose baby are you?" The Bachelor Father was brought to Broadway by David Belasco, who has so frequently been called the dean of Manhattan theatrical producers that he always wears a canonical collar. It deals gently and tenderly with a lovable old libertine who, in his dotage, calls his bastards...
...father and mother. That point can be determined experimentally. I think it is not longer than two or three weeks, anyway. Therefore, I should never let a mother handle her child longer than three weeks, and I should never let a nurse stay longer than three weeks. . . . This question hasn't anything to do with companionate marriage or marriage at all. It has to do with the bringing up of youngsters and making them as independent of people and things as they ought to be." For ten years Psychologist Watson experimented with babies at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University...
...pitching developed in imitation of the more courtly game of quoits. Perhaps, so far as it concerns the codification of horseshoe pitching as a formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw...
...question chosen for this year's debate is: "Resolved, That this house favors the governmental policies of Mussolini". Harvard will meet Princeton at Princeton, Princeton will journey to New Haven to contend with Yale, and the Blue will meet the Crimson in Cambridge. All of these debates will take place on the evening of March 24. Announcement will be made later as to whether the University affirmative or negative team will remain at home...
...trials which will be held this afternoon will determine the membership of the squad which will eat together every day to discuss the question. All men in the College and Engineering School in good standing are eligible. Those intending to try out for the team should report this evening in the New Lecture Hall at 7 o'clock prepared to give a five minute speech on either side of the question...