Word: smotheration
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Past experience leaves ground for the suspicion that a competent lecturer cannot be found for the purpose. If such be the case, or if it is considered that an occasional lecture might unduly smother the spontaneity of undergraduate economic thought, at least it should be required that the various section men in Economics A devote part of each hour to uninterrupted comment upon the text. This would assure a measure of uniform progress, and give the course an effectiveness which it now lacks...
...anent the arbitrary character of Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother Mac-Leish and Pirandello with truffles of a more spiritual kind. Mr. Winter's long hosauna on Pirandelle in particular, is a jewel, a jewel of the genre ennoyuer bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists...
...tire of its favorite and the producers haven't used him over-abundantly. The double exposure escapes the cleverest eye and the exposition of two characters will hold the attention of the most indifferent. And they've put in Jimmy Durante to gush forth exuberantly and to smother his tormenters with aspirates. Claudette Colbert still possesses her cultured charm and poise but falls to convince one that she recognizes the meaning of the electoral college. All in all a shadowy theme, which often descends into a musical revue, is graced by the presence of Cohan and rescued from as dreary...
...Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after 36 holes. Rex Hartley had another chance to be bloody damnedmad after losing, 2 & 1, to Gus Moreland; so did his brother, who lost 3 & 2 to Maurice McCarthy Jr. Seaver pounded out prodigious drives to smother Fiddian...
...could expect nothing from the French Rightists of the Poincaré-Tardieu-Laval group. He made his overtures to all the French opposition leaders, especially to Radical Edouard Herriot, Socialist Leon Blum. He offered them two definite concessions. If France did not openly oppose his plans he would smother the German propaganda campaign against Poland, France's ally, and he would break Germany's close business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over...