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...heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten thousand people eating five tons of beans rubbled her sensitively...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/23/1950 | See Source »

Senator McCarthy believes that if a man has ever agreed with Communist doctrines, the man is disloyal and his opinions are suspect McCarthy has stopped trying to find the difficult spilt between ideas and ideology, to separate free opinion from fettered adherence to a party line. Unfortunately, so have a lot of other people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guilt by Coincidence | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

Here is a situation where crying over spilt shekels might pay dividends in the future. Last year, more than $2,000 was spent for printing and related expenses by the Council and its subsidiary organizations such as class committees, dance committees, and the Combined Charities Committee. Hundreds of these dollars could have been saved had the Council given as many printing jobs as possible to one printing firm. As it was, different Council committees had their printing done by more than a dozen different shops often without trying to find the least expensive printer; frequently without obtaining previous authorization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound Foolish | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

Elections Spilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Approves Draft Of Revised Constitution | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The European Modernists | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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