Word: vox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature of vox populi that hosannas are being sung...
...Vox populi, vox Dei-ALEUIN...
Last year when the Crimson made its stalwart defense of sanity in college football against the jibes of news writers and the cries of "sour grapes" issuing from that cavity, supposedly the native habitat of vox populi, there were those who believed that a desire for the star had afflicted one journalistic moth. Today in the pleasant glow which is a part of a well earned victory in any human activity the CRIMSON remains possessed of exactly the same viewpoint. Moderation in all things, including undergraduate athletics, is still a justifiable belief...
Pedestrians in Vienna who are deaf will hereafter wear a yellow arm band 10 cm. wide with three large round black spots. The suggestion was made, by the police because several recent accidents were the result of subnormal hearing on the part of certain pedestrians. The "Vox" society (70,000 members-all of whom have subnormal hearing) supplied all of its members with arm bands. The society finds that 12% of the traffic accidents have been due to subnormal hearing...
...lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ in themselves, though composed only of the vox humana...