Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind if I trespass on your space to correct a few errors in your editorial on the recent alterations for the selection of Rhodes Scholars? It is not quite fair to say that "the trustees are aroused to the deficiencies etc." as if they had not heretofore been conscious thereof. The trouble, The trouble, of course, has been the difficulty of altering the terms of a trust under English law. It is very likely that Rhodes himself wished the Trustees to have complete latitude to make such changes but the Will was so worded as to necessitate...
...President Lowell seems to exaggerate the importance of the former. To add that "Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress the Harvard football news", appears the Harvard football news", appears to be, to say the least, a lack of taste. And to define good will "literally" in terms of cash is more than a slight confusion of values...
...press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...
What had moved Mr. Bickel to talk in the same breath about Government, Business and Press Control? He did not say. But observers could draw their own semi-conclusions from the following facts...
...Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...