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Probably no judicial phrase in recent years has caused more confusion than the late Justice Holmes's famed rubric that free speech is dangerous only when it constitutes "a clear and present danger" to U.S. security...
...annual ARA regatta is the rubric of the odd-sized sheel season and decides the national championship for little college and club eights. It rotates year after year from one rowing river to another and draws little colleges and clubs from the nation and second and third boats from the big rowing colleges in the vicinity. Its big function is as the final testing course for the nation's single scullers...
...this point the executive usually adopts a "humorous" by-line alias like J. Rumpford Rubric to amuse his roommates. Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 is always highly amused also...
...wartime publishing and a shift in policy, the editors of "Threshold" have decided to devote all of one issue to a single type of subject matter. In terms of the magazine's own credo, its latest number is concerned with the shape of "the new world order." Under that rubric the organ of International Student Service has gathered both one of the finest and one of the poorest articles it has ever printed...
...svelte secretaries, who take down gags he thinks up at night, d.t.-totaling W. C. Fields ambled into Los Angeles court, tried to get a $20,000 refund on his 1937 Federal income tax. He found that the Government wanted $20,000 more. Badgered by revenuers about the elastic rubric he had created for deductible expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk is that it's what...