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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should the newly created committee devise some method to remedy this evil in the system, it would render a great service. This problem however is greater than that of giving a better education to those capable of receiving it: they must show that any reorganization they may suggest is consistent with the usual misintorpretation of the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence...
...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...
Finally, to render the romance of Tannhauser overture, he unromantically removed his collar and coat. The hour over, he leaned closer to the microphone, asked in effect: "Do radio listeners like such music? If not, let me know and I'll broadcast no more concerts...
Rope's End. A malevolent scent pervades the theatre wherein this play is exhibited. Perhaps it really exists. More likely it is imaginary, for the audience observes such diseased events as render the senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet...
...even natural law. . . . How can those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing more evil and committing a sin in the sight...