Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal days, Justice Holmes, reading an 8-to-1 decision holding constitutional a Virginia law requiring sterilization of third-generation defectives, dryly noted, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Justice Butler dissents...
...celebrate the golden jubilee of Barnard College, Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve asked visiting notables to review their adventures in scholarship, to show students that "It's fun to use your mind." English Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson of Smith College remembered her elation at discovering the "Conway Letters" (detailing the romance of a Cambridge University philosopher and a beautiful young viscountess) in a chilly Cambridge library: "I wore all the clothes I owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly...
Author Thorp's funniest and most tactful chapter deals with reform in the movies and such organizations as the League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with drinking, nose thumbing. She admires the versatility with which censors safeguard U. S. morals. Sample: when the script for Zaza called for a female character to shout at an admirer, "Pig! Pig! Pig!" the vigilant Hays office ordered: "Delete two pigs...
Century ago Colonel Claude Crozet, curly-haired, black-whiskered soldier of Napoleon, State Engineer of Virginia, became first president of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute. On November 11, 1839, 32 cadets were admitted to the new school. The contractor had not finished building the barracks, and snow had fallen before he was through. Food was scarce. The cadets decided to go home. If they had, V. M. I. would not have celebrated its centennial last week...
Switzerland last week furnished the first notable spy trial of World War II. A brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist...