Word: reines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscene, indecent, immoral and impure theatrical production. The flaw in this statute is the fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...
...upon 245 urchins in a Manhattan public school. When eagle-eyed instructors brooded over the scene to make peeking, cribbing and question-whispering practically impossible, 3% of the children were cunning and daring enough to cheat anyway. When instructors left the room, or dawdled inattentively to give iniquity free rein, the cheaters seized their chance, passed notes, made signs, craned necks, copied from grubby "ponies." 80% of the group joined in. Dr. May did not blame human nature, but the "immoral" examination system. "To some children," he said, "the passing of an examination is a matter of life and death...
...Park--"Rein," at 8.15 o'clock...
...cases, has been done away with this year, most of the 66 upperclassmen who are now being relieved are men who were on probation because of failure of last year. Of these men 23 not only secured their relief from probation but obtained grades sufficiently high to warrant their rein-statement in their original classes...
...about 30,000 men, was naturally not good. Some of the troops declined to surrender except on payment of $20 apiece; others looted buildings on the docks, stole materials valued at $1,000,000. The Foreign settlement, enclosed by barbed-wire entanglements, was reported to be safe; guards were rein- forced, nevertheless, as a precaution...