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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really decisive argument for its passage is offered by a casual scrutiny of the opposition lobby. It is no surprise to find the compounders of ineffective panaceas, love charms, unmentionables, and spurious venereal disease cures on this role d'honneur--for the passage of the bill would render them criminals. The participation of the backers of such widely used and palpably respectable products as Castoria, Midol, Cascarets, Crazy Crystals, and Ovaltine is the significant fact. This is patently a confession of deceptive advertising which can and must eventually be eliminated by governmental powers such as the bill in question would...
...alcohol, water, and burnt sugar; but when it contains substances that fail very little short of being poisonous the last crushing straw has been added. In New York analyses of "Sam Thompson pure rye whiskey" has revealed that it had in it sufficient diethylphthalate, a denaturant causing nausea, to render the liquor unfit for consumption. This is not merely one isolated case, for I think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons that give the after effects a peculiarly harrowing quality; many have found that on the morning after...
...Julian Green, in the midst of being astonished at the number of beggars in New York as compared with Paris, spoke to a Times reporter about his ambition as a writer. He is now far more concerned with style than he used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries. They...
...Leverett House dinner, at 6.30 o'clock this evening, will be followed by informal entertainment in the Junior Common Room. Kenneth B. Murdock '16 professor of English, and Theodore Morrison '23, instructor in English, will read selections of their own choice. John R. Walsh, tutor in Economics, will render several baritone solos, to be followed by a group of piano numbers by Morton P. Kahn '34, and a 'cello selection by Frederic H. Tunnell '35. The program will be concluded by an original skit presented by Robert M. Terrall '36. Elting E. Morison 1G, a former chairman of the House...
...recent addition to the cast is the Rhinehart Quartet, which proved to be the hit of the H.D.C.'s Saturday night radio program. This undergraduate group of singers, which is to render several negro spirituals in "Ever the Twain" is composed of Francis D. Moore '35, John C. Cort '35, Warren Sturgis '35, and Richard C. Johnson...