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...confessional scatterbursts, the old scoundrel tells all. Nosing out some little-known scandal about-some well-known man, Crome would disguise it thinly in two or three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...
...tear down the monstrous constructions of net and feathers that crowned women's heads and set in their place simple hats. From this radical start, she went on to order the fashionable women of three continents into the turtleneck sweaters of the apaches, to expose their knees and suppress their curves. The New Look of the '20s was the look of Coco Chanel; from it and the sale of dresses, hats, perfumes, handbags, junk jewelry and almost anything else that fashionable women chose to buy, Coco herself became one of France's richest women...
...problem with which the intellectuals of this country are confronted is very serious," wrote Einstein. "The reactionary politicians have managed to instill suspicion of all intellectual efforts into the public by dangling before their eyes a danger from without . . . They are now proceeding to suppress the freedom of teaching and to deprive of their positions all those who do not prove submissive...
...regents insisted that they were not trying to suppress academic freedom. They merely thought that term "can be interpreted too broadly." Obviously, said one disgruntled professor, a new day is dawning at Nevada. "Freedom of speech now exists on the university campus. One must only be careful of what one says...
...Legion tried to suppress another textbook in Nebraska, but with much less success. Joseph Vurardi, chairman of the Legion's Nebraska Un-American Activities Committee, accused "a certain professor" at the University of Nebraska of using "a certain book" in his class. "Students can't swallow that staff," Vurardi said. The book turned out to be "The State of Asia," a publication of the Institute of Pacific Relations. One of its articles was written by Owen Lattimore. The "indoctrinator" was Dr. E. N. Anderson, professor of history...