Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such serious scientists as Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'Reilly, William O. McGeehan) thought the Butantan biologist bigoted; suspected him of prohibition interests...
...SERIOUS COQUETTE-About a girl who loves a shiftless lad and kills herself after her father kills him (TIME, Nov. 21). STRANGE INTERLUDE-Acting by Lynn Fontanne, Helen Westley, Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders, Tom Powers. Production by the Theatre Guild. Nine acts complete with asides and soliloquies by Eugene O'Neill (TIME, Feb. 13). MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets...
...advantages of a system under which frank, friendly, and intimate conference between student boards and university officials is substituted for arbitrary and autocratic control, so far outweigh the disadvantages due to the inevitable and sometimes serious mistakes that editors will make, that I am convinced we ought to take the chance courageously for the sake of the great good. Unpleasant incidents are bound to happen, but they are part of the price we must be prepared to pay for what I am sure student editors will ultimately accomplish: the development by the trial and error method of sound and acceptable...
...Federal Treasury. Told that the University had news on Monday, it is not strange that Boston's energetic papers should make some effort to beat their rivals. Not only does the Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript is put into the position of the well-meaning but somewhat unpractical bank offered as a horrible example above...
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