Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of the nation's women, 36%, would rather see their sons go to jail than to war; among women under 30, this is the preference of 42%. While 88% feel that no overseas war is justified, 64% feel that war is justifiable on occasion, but by a quirk of feminine logic 87% regard invasion of the U. S. or its possessions as such an occasion. These opinions appeared this week in another nationwide survey of women conducted by the news-nosy Ladies' Home Journal. Other opinions...
Point after Curtis Harvard J. V. Providence '41 Hoar, Kelley le. re. Quirk, Workerski Cabitor, Harrington, Tonks, lt. rt. Gorski Mellon, Jenkins lg. rg. Petrarca Wood, Fuller, c. c. Sarris Snyder, Emerson, Ellis rg. lg. Marczio Armstrong, Reed, Jenkins, Gale rt. lt. Zrako, Alex Smith, Soule, Kennedy re. le. Sullivan Robinson, P. Johnson, Squibb qb. qb. Danahy Curtis, Thompson lhb. rhb. Pawshki, Donke Cordingley, Jones, Boulger rhb. lhb. Barry Sargeant, L. Johnson, Lewis, Gardnor fb. McCarthy, Cerra...
...easy going. It has been a difficult battle to survive the blows of depressions and censorship, predudice and intolerance. During her lifetime lesser publications have sprung up, lived for a brief period and fallen by the wayside. But the rather remarkable vitality of old Mother Advocate is not a quirk of pure fortune. That today she may look back upon an enviable record goes deeper than that. The tradition of "Duice est Periculm" and "Veritas nihil veretur" have been the essential strength of her life, for here at Harvard there has always been a real need for independent thinking...
Last year Publisher Macfadden acquired one of the handsomest of cinema fan magazines in the late James R. Quirk's Photoplay. Since going under the Macfadden banner, Photoplay has lost circulation, but continues to make money...
France's No. 1 battlefield honor is the Médaille Militaire. By a curious quirk, only generals commanding armies, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men can win the green-and-yellow-ribboned decoration, the former for their strategic vision, the latter for their bravery in direct action. Though the French War Ministry has no record of the number awarded since 1852, some 300,000 recipients are alive today...