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Rugby has so many desirable features that its tremendous popularity in England is readily understandable. Given a decent chance the British brand of football has easily come to share the spotlight with our own gridiron variety. If we must have over-emphasis on sport, it might be well to spread it around...
...saloon. Thus the only people capable of answering the Dry argument referred to are those who actually drink, and if they presume to raise their voices in refutation, prohibitionists, with smug complacency, scourge them as drinkers, law-breakers, and menaces to society, and hence incapable to advancing any decent sentiments...
...weather has a lot to do with what a tennis team can accomplish during the season. Few of us realize that around Cambridge. Considering all the days wasted by rain, the lateness of the start of the season and all, there are really only about three weeks of decent playing weather...
...important for being a direct violation of the Code of Cinemorality proclaimed last week by Tsar Will Hays. One of the principal articles of the Hays code was directed against the cinematic practice of glorifying criminals. In Under a Texas Moon a scapegrace who steals the property of decent people, lies to women, makes love irresponsibly and carries a pistol, is shown succeeding in life and having a good time. Worse than that, he is made out a likeable fellow. Some of the moral noxiousness of Frank Fay's performance may be palliated for those who have seen him before...
...Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives the history of her case, reprints the offending pamphlet, with its diagrams, in full. Said the Court of Appeals: the pamphlet is "an accurate exposition of the relevant facts of the sex side of life in decent language and in manifestly serious and disinterested spirit...