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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Cheap Insurance | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...down and write that light comedies are everlasting entertainment. They do not try to be. They are just light comedies to make you laugh. Forty Winks decidedly is and does. There is a mock melodramatic plot about stolen papers and government intrigue. Raymond Griffith is excellent in the "Cheerio" type of London leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 9, 1925 | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...even pleasure--for a selfish desire for classroom preeminence, deny the principle of reciprocity, and never once feel that they owe some self sacrificing service to the college which is doing much for them. Is it any wonder that the first and larger group feels some contempt for this type of student and this kind of scholastic activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIP | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...Author. Aldous Huxley, an admirer of Charles Dickens, a nephew of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barren Leaves | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...later years, however, these clubs have lost their popularity to a large extent Mr. Shevlin maintains that the introduction of the moving picture theatre and the automobile is largely to blame for the decline of these clubs. The men of the type to which the clubs appealed have lost their interest as far as actual participation in athletics is concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BOXING CHAMPIONS WILL BE COLLEGE MEN | 1/30/1925 | See Source »

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