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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of the original weathered the storm. The story, in case one's memory has blind spots, tells of an earnest youth whose wild oats flourish forth at the feet of his fiancée. The moral is that all men are tarnished; it is woman's task to select a husband that cleans easily. May McAvoy and Marie Prevost occupy themselves to good effect as the fiancée and the wild oats. The picture is to be recommended, but not with banners and hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...While the bootlegging of whisky into the United States from Mexico is an easy undertaking, the bootlegging of religion into Mexico is a harder task. And when it comes to ecclesiastical bootlegging, I draw the line. Under the present Mexican Governoment, no foreign school teacher or clergyman can go in there to teach or preach. I do not think our church ought to go into that Republic as an outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 94 Bishops | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

Fifth Assembly. When the Fifth General Assembly met at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 8) it had many matters of routine to dispose of. There were thorny problems to solve; but all these things were as nothing compared to the task, which had been set, of drafting a plan for the building of new Europe and the renovation of the rest of the world. Two great speeches from Premiers Ramsay MacDonald of Britain and Edouard Herriot of France indicated that the building was to be in the style of arbitration, security and disarmament. The chief draftsman was no longer Lord Cecil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Teeth | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Dean Donham of the Business School and his associates, acting as a jury to select the best advertisement of the year, will face a difficult task when they endeavor to choose the winners of the Bok Award. Picture the dilemma of the able jurists when forced to decide whether the suggestive appeal of a silk-stockinged maiden is capable of selling more merchandise than the almost absolute purity of floating soap. But it cannot be expected that the choice will be as simple a problem as all that. Too much is at stake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON | 10/9/1924 | See Source »

...know, there has been little or no attention paid in University music departments to the problem of training the young musical critic. Unequipped to cope with the delicate task of passing judgment upon musical artists, he has been obliged to learn in the rough school of experience", said Professor Edward B. Hill, of the Department of Music, when asked recently by a CRIMSON reporter to comment on the inauguration of a new course entitled "The Introduction to Musical Criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HILL LAMENTS FAILURE TO TRAIN MUSIC CRITICS | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

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