Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, where there is a strong masculine tradition never to be caught short, the new vogue will probably not get much of a start. If there were nothing else to stop this demonstration of male beauty there remains the significant fact that the modest maidens across the Commons strenuously object to a show of hairy legs in Cambridge tea rooms. So Dartmouth will have its short pants, Yale its natty caps, and Princeton its beer suits. For Harvard there remains nothing but a little old-fashioned dignity...
...Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable. . . . [The Mob character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous and anti-cultural; it is very knowing and knows very little." But no yearner after yore is Critic Notch; he thinks the present age "most fascinating...
Should doting but fixation-fearing parents kiss their babies by a stop watch? Should a father merely shake hands with his moppet before retiring? Is it bad for a child to like his nurse? In the current Parents' Magazine, Bertrand Russell, famed British philosopher, takes it upon himself to refute some new-fangled ideas about parenthood, to disseminate a few commonsense tenets of his own. Excerpts from his treatise, entitled: "Are Parents Bad for Children...
...unnerved. Well aware of the flying tradition that prescribes the "army cure"* he announced he was impatient to get home and wanted his personal pilot to pick him up at Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort were ready and waiting at Marseilles. With a luncheon stop at Le Bourget, where another escort of ten French fighting ships joined them, the Prince and his party flew the 615 miles to Windsor from Marseilles...
...college executives and professors would realize the futility of decrying the overemphasis of college athletics in the newspapers of today and would stop their protests they would come to a happy conclusion. The state of affairs is that college sports receive a big emphasis--not as much as some would make us believe, perhaps--and that they probably will keep on getting this prominence in the press of today. The Yale News, in the accompanying press clipping, recognizes the impossibility of bettering by much the present situation and shows that the popularity of athletics justifies their place...