Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine prides itself more on the chic, the utter modernity of its readers than Editor Frank Crowninshield's glossy smartchart Vanity Fair. In its blithe, monthly blurbs Vanity Fair pictures its subscribers as impeccably draped ladies and gentlemen in rhomboidal furniture, who sigh with appreciation at the dissonances of Darius Milhaud and will scarcely trouble themselves to look at painting earlier than that of Amadeo Modigliani...
...further suggested that the quadrangle plan, since it looks like an imitation of a Harvard idea", might be repulsive to true-blue sons of Eli. To deduce, as the Herald has, that everything at Harvard is held in utter contempt at New Haven, is to disregard fact. Too many people believe that the spirit of the football field carries over to all relations between the two schools...
Aside from the utter disregard for the rights of other individuals involved in the practice of demolishing subway rolling stock, such conduct hardly reflects credit upon the rioters themselves or upon the institution which in the popular mind they represent. The Boston Traveler is to be congratulated on recognizing the fact that "this sort of Siwash stuff" is not in fact representative of Harvard; others, less discriminating are not likely to be so generous if the subway customs of the last two years become a tradition...
...Berlin last week an amorous he-locust was allowed to utter his mating call in front of a radio microphone. In another room the delicate sound was so perfectly reproduced and broadcast that a she-locust, duped, at once took wing, flew into the loudspeaker, bumped her head...
...chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns to an adjoining column to find that for the first time in ten years Congress is to open discussion on the Prohibition question. Perhaps he becomes aware of that unpleasant feeling which follows untimely mirth--perhaps not. But the utter ridiculousness of the similarity is not to be evaded...