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...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
...Author. Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...
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Such, today, is the man whose name has become the synonym for Prohibition by virtue of his having introduced in Congress the statute to enforce the 18th Amendment.* Last week he had something to say after Nominee Smith had suggested changing the statute. Said Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
Bishop Cannon is a quiet, prosy, tenacious little Virginian, a son of the W. C. T. U. His name is a synonym for the militant, reforming, social-working element of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South. He has long sought to reunite the northern and southern wings of his faith, which split over slavery in 1844. His lifelong ardor for Prohibition is explained, in his own words, as follows...