Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shirley's jesting remark: "I am sure that such a lecture would be very interesting and well attended. It should also be very entertaining, especially if the man talks the way he writes, for I could make nothing of the scheming waddle that appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON," I'll have the ghost of Hamlet answer this...
...knows is what I sees in the papers" is the prefatory remark to the penetrating political comments of many hot' stove league observer. If you are willing to admit that in the past year of amazing activity along so many different lines, you don't even know what you have seen in the papers, Lindley's book will be an admirable introduction, review, or reference book on the New Deal. If you want scientific comment on economic or administrative phases of the Roosevelt regime, if you are looking for primer like explanations of the fundamentals of Tugwellian economics...
...issue of the Paramount Newsreel, Professor Tugwell told a truly appalling tale of injuries caused by a poisonous preparation, but neglected to give its name as "Lash-Lure" or to state that it was a dye, merely calling it an eyelash "beautifier," and concluding his speech with the dreadful remark, "This is the kind of stuff you women use on your eyelashes...
...value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...
...Harvard official to deny the premises cited above would be to indicate a certain dullness of perception. For him to gaze upon them and to deny their staring implication is, palpably enough, in the best style, but one is compelled to remark that it reflects no consuming courage. It will require courage to transport the course structure to its proper place in the academic system, to subordinate it to the tutorial establishment, to make its very existence dependent on the quality of its direction. It will mean treading on a great many well-polished toes. It is, admittedly, no task...