Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drinking rather than drunkenness became the social offense. The result was a rapid swing back from the attitude that a man might drink, but owed respect for his follows in the matter of conduct to the boyish point of view that intoxication was a joke, not on one's self, but on the law. The sense of personal responsibility was miraculously shifted from the individual to the law, and the result has been occasional debauches in the universities...
OPEN ALL NIGHT-Paul Morand- Seltzer ($2.00). A brilliant, sardonic mind vivisects post-War Europe with the knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
Yale, on the other hand, will enter the game unbeaten after a series of dazzling outbreaks against Bucknell, West Point, and Maryland. The Yale team has developed at a rapid race in those games, perfecting a varied attack that has proved effective against the strongest defense of their rivals...
...last work out yesterday afternoon, the regular Freshman team lined up for a rapid signal drill with the exception of Captain Daley and Zarakov, who were still limping on the side lines. Although considerably improved, both men are still in too uncertain a condition to risk before the Freshmen finally line up against the Yale Freshmen at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. In their absence in yesterday's line-up, Porter alternated for Daley at right tackle and Stewart for Zarakov at right halfback. The remaining members of the team are in good condition. Miller and Coady were both running...