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...Laborites, virtually all State-schooled. Argumentative Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan* - told the House tartly: "There is a great body of opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...
Professor Merriman's favorite charges, the Eliot House crew, faces its acid test tomorrow morning when it comes up against the champion Yale eight, Trumbull College, over the mile course...
...specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...frankly pessimistic about both types of ulcer, for they arise from a nervous temperament. "Often the only really effective cure for an ulcer," they wrote, "would be an annuity." Great hope for ulcer victims lies in development of new chemicals which prevent the stomach from producing too much acid (TIME, April...
...critic. Born in 1873 to a merchant-newspaper family of Cadiz, Ohio, he went to Franklin College (Ohio), spent twelve years on the first Tribune, 15 on the second, grew to be a massive, silver-haired Buddha of first nights. For more than a quarter-century, he waged an acid campaign for maturity and subtlety on the stage-and in the audience. He developed a prose style as ornate as a Victorian bandstand, used it for the elaborate puncturing of the phony or the inane...