Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaintive screed by Noel Burnet under Animals in TIME, Nov. 16, relative to the koala "Teddy bears" of Australia is not without its points. But rather than ask for a Santa Claus, why doesn't he offer for sale an enlarged colored picture of the bear & cub, such as you have reproduced, with the proceeds going to the present and future care and protection of the bears? If the picture were well done I would gladly pay a dollar for one to give to my little girl...
...Drys tend to be sentimentalists, exultant over small victories and busy with niggling activities pending what they believe to be the inevitable return of Prohibition. Last week many a Dry was gratified to hear a comparatively substantial gain by The Cause: the name and cheery figure of Santa Claus are to be banned in holiday liquor advertising in no less than 30 States. Research on this question was done by Ethel Hubler, editor-publisher of a Los Angeles Prohibition paper called the National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...
...Sunday back to the books. The academic year traditionally begins after the Yale game. Be careful to get to the first class this morning, a hangover from Freshman year. Santa Claus soon, with a bag full of midyears. So much to do. Get the cogs meshed, the wheels moving...
...most urbane was that of the London Morning Post, an extreme Conservative organ. It began by observing with satisfaction that the British Conservative Party has in fact introduced some measures more radical than most thus far sponsored by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Admitting the President to the generous Santa Claus fraternity of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Morning Post declared, "When all allowances are made, Roosevelt may justly claim to have introduced a new principle of responsibility for individual welfare into American government and to have won widespread acceptance...