Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive the inspiration of his life. He would engage without further reference some few members of the "gym class" on their aesthetic interpretation alone. Not only dancers, but, acrobats, contortionists, weight lifters, dumb-bells, all under one room and operating to music. Nothing lacking but a name. Ah! The Soap Box Revue...
...there is one objection to Mr. Berlin and the Soap-box Revue of Hemenway Gymnasium. At present it is all exercise and admission is free. Under the Berlin regime seats in the second balcony for this pastoral scene would retail from two dollars...
Nevertheless the Thanksgiving pardons in Illinois are to be condemned, not because they were wrong in principle, but because they followed no principle save that of political expediency. Undoubtedly it is better to have Mr. Lloyd and his friends free to move their soap-boxes from corner to corner unchecked, than to keep them under lock and key. Highly volatile gases are far more dangerous confined than when allowed plenty of room for expansion. But when the Governor of a state overrides a law and frees prisoners at the very beginning of their sentences in the face of a decision...
...were in a Billy Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...
...whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular support. This motion, however, was not seconded...