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In turn, Julius Caesar, Virgil, Antony, Cicero and Brutus become the subject of Cleopatra's unconventional commentaries and after each one has been sufficiently cheapened and demoralized beyond recognition the author turns to Roman stupidity, brutality and licentiousness which he riotously portrays without causing the reader to blnk an eyelash...

Author: By R. A. Stout, | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letter and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

President Lowell, demonstrating an admirable willingness to continue in his efforts to remedy what he believes to be an artificial state of affairs, has repeated the offer of the Corporation. Whenever five hundred men signify their desire for a dining hall the University will erect it. There is apparently no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROOF OF ONE PUDDING | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

Of course the French Queen, King and courtiers were all hallucinations ? or were they? No one knows. Ludwig may have known that they did not exist, may have delighted only in pulling everyone's leg and in squeezing more money for his whims out of his Minister of "Finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rightful King | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

However loud the popular cry may grow against the difficulty and affection of speaking corectly, however much "Liberty" may protest against the refusal of dictionary makers to substitute the easy idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD USAGE | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

Not only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

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