Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon a secret errand slipped into the empty, silent offices of Cosmopolitan Magazine in Manhattan. Doors were locked, keys turned. Thus barricaded against intrusion, Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan sat down with five excited assistants to examine the "dummy" of their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind him in safe hands...
...course not. Why should they tear it down? Well, the inside. Didya see the red all over the snow? Thought it was a murder for a while. But Al says it's methyl orange. Butter-coloring. Guess that's what they use here...
...signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles...
...could be designed to supplant Matthew, Weld, Boylston, Emerson, etc., is not sufficiently justification of the destruction of the monstrosities, why not have the Engineering School build the future Harvard? They might do a good job. If the Yard is to be kept in its primeval state, why not tear everything out except Holden, Harvard, Massachusetts, and University, restoring the plazza to the last, of course? The little quadrangles that have been made along the edge of the Yard are one of its most interesting features. A completely cloistered Yard would be no detriment. Until Memorial Hall has inspired...
...that the "spirit of revolt" is entirely absent. Just what direction this revolt might take is not quite clear in the article but it is evident that Mr. Roberts was very much impressed by the stories of the old days when students were went to go out and tear down a college building or two before the dawn...