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Kinetic, young Educational Psychologist Goodwin Watson of Columbia called on teachers and superintendents to unite for the new order in professional unions, the locals of which would be knotted together in a propaganda agency in Manhattan. Warned he: "We have a swell time here wording our dreams of c new society, but when it actually comes to putting them into action that is a different matter...
...some churches parishioners were told not to read the paper henceforth. The Cardinal wrote a letter to Mr. Curtis. My landlady made me move. The Ledger accumulated what is perhaps the most remarkable "Don't" list in the history of American journalism (and there have been some swell "don't" lists), in an effort to avoid any further annoyance to the Catholic Church. One of these "don'ts" represents to my mind the farthest South in newspaper rules. That summer, when the St. Louis National Team was playing in the World Series, we were not permitted...
...only reason I'm mixing myself up in this is that I want to get something done about the way the girls are treated over at the Union," Miss Warner declared. "I know they have to have discipline, but they could still be decent. Oh, the captains are swell to your face, but they go around and squeal to Miss Murray when your back is turned...
There is no necessity to swell here the already monumental literature on the subtle antithesis between the academic and the "worldly" mind. But it may be worthwhile to recall that this difference does exist, and that it is of primary importance in estimating the validity of the objections to the N.R.A. new being borne by every little zophyr which wanders too close to the cloistered universities of the land. The outstanding facts, so often voiced, so rarely comprehended, of our period are that the growing rigidities, of our economic structure and the psychology which is at once its cause...
...Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen?" Mr. O'Connell paused to adjust a bright red scarf around his neck. "Oh, they're swell...