Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GREEN FOREST?Nathalie Sedgwick Colby?Harcourt Brace ($2). The "green forest" herein is a world of the spirit which Shirley Challoner entered one day at a concert with David Findley, a young doctor. Between them sat Shirley's husband, heavy and lit eral. Shirley and David could not have each other then because Shirley was going to have a baby. Years later, at the time of this story, Franklin Challoner is buried but his daughter keeps David and Shirley apart again. She drags Shirley to Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement...
...reform proposed to meet this problem will show that effective provision has not been made. The plan is to play the same teams every two or three years but no team, with the exception of Yale, two years in succession. This step is intended to remove the spirit of competition from the game and hence diminish the emphasis on victory. Such step, how ever, would only increase the number of rivals and make the competition keener and more prolonged. The desire to retrieve lost laurels would be the stronger for waiting two or three years instead...
What, then, is the net outcome of the publicity that the new Harvard athletic policy has received? A plea has been made for a return to the former spirit of sportsmanship in American athletics, and an example such as it is, has been set for other colleges to follow. It is an ideal worth striving for, but the President's program is as impractical as was the Harvard Crimson's proposal in 1925 when the editors sought to diminish the number of games and remove all big rivals other than Yale from the Harvard schedule. --Yale Daily News
...Editors but when the matter was brought to my attention, I said that Collier's would consider publishing such an article only on the conditions that every important allegation be substantiated by documentary evidence, that the Harvard athletic authorities take full responsibility for any charges made, and that the spirit of the article itself be such as to appeal to men of fair minds, regardless of their athletic or other affiliations. The article as submitted met none of the tests laid down and was immediately and finally rejected...
...laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion of the writers. The audience left the theatre whistling " 'Cross the River . . ." in a thousand different keys, in uniformly cheerful spirit...