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...taunt and a challenge have been flung at Harvard from somewhere in the middle west. The Grand Rapids Press in a few, simple, pregnant phrases has denounced the University football team as a group of boys whose sole purpose is to bring, money into the Harvard coffers. They enlarge upon this indictment by announcing that the students here have little or no interest in the team. And they end by stating a derogatory hypothetical case which involves the reputation of the Harvard quarterback. These are pretty serious charges; and worse, they have quoted a university official to lend gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A GOOD NAME..." | 10/10/1930 | See Source »

...subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played last week by Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff. The woman and the handsome stranger who taunt him were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute of Music) which chanted and wailed in Greek fashion. And important as either principals or chorus were lights. For Arnold Schönberg, being a painter as well as a composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Obviously one of the worst taunts that may be thrust at a Christian Scientist is to claim that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy used anesthetics at the times she was suffering, approaching death. Recently that taunt was made by a Christian Scientist. It was not denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mother, Parent & Drugs | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...insulting taunt was hurled from a signed article by Il Duce, which all Italian newspapers obediently printed on the same day. Bachelors may well have blushed at these big black words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Big Black Words | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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