Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost in the hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...
Prominent speakers will address the Society from time to time during the year. Among these are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Lecturer in Literature at the New School for Social Research, New York City, David Pinski, playwright, and Julian W. Mack, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, New York...
...Captive. To the credit of the censors be it said, they have suffered to pass a frank sex drama based on one of the social milieu's unloveliest tragedies. It is a tense, well-constructed play, dealing with the plight of an Urning among men. The girl struggles against a homosexual compulsion with all the vigor of human will, only to succumb inevitably to her own nature, consumed entirely by Lesbian fires. Men, uncomprehending, fail to help her to escape from herself. She must return to her own. Perhaps the play's weakness lies in just the same...
Less scurrilous was the examination of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan. With murderous sarcasm Dr. Little was found competent in respect to his athletic, religious and social qualities, but wanting in that he is a biologist, a "loud" approver of birth control and one who had "publicly declared that compared to Oxford, Harvard wasn't so much. . . ." Besides, if Dr. Little was the chosen one, why had Dr. Lowell not yet resigned...
...Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...