Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. Raymond Moley of Columbia said punishment should be made to fit the criminal, not the crime...
Severe in appearance, frequently sarcastic, a Harvard graduate (1908), Teacher Eaton is called a "pretty good egg" by St. Marks boys. He likes boys, takes groups of them on trips, is considered "good fun on a party." Rumors of "beautiful women, riotous parties" were denied by his London housekeeper. Said she: "He was a university man on a holiday. I don't think he had any friends in London. He spent most of his time in the museums and just walking the streets...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...
George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision...
Malcolm C. Rorty, engineer of International Telegraph and Telephone Co. said telephone communication was binding Latin America together, pointed out that the Argentine has 192 mi. of telephone wire to every 10,000 of population, the U. S. only...