Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word the police were suspected with good reason of having subjected the 22-year old bulb tester to a scandalous third degree. She, Miss Irene Savage, a cheerful, comely girl, was recently arrested and acquitted of the charge of "indecent conduct" in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde...
Freshman Week this fall will be shortened one day of the customary five devoted in the past to formal and informal meetings for the members of the incoming class, it was announced at University Hall yesterday. No reason was given for the step other than that the former period of five days was longer than the first year preliminary engagements required...
Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal
Last week, idle minds tried to discover a political reason for President Coolidge going to Wisconsin this summer. They recalled that at the 1924 G. O. P. convention the delegates from Wisconsin, which that year gave La Follette to the nation, were the only ones who did not join the joyful demonstration at the first mention of Mr. Coolidge's name...
...large number of people feel . . . that those who have the money to pay for such [alcoholic] beverages and have them analyzed can drink without risk of health, while those who cannot do so must either do without them or take great risks of being poisoned. It is for this reason that the great mass of our workmen and poor people feel that Prohibition does not prohibit, but is a scheme to deny them something. . . . Is it any wonder they should rebel...