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...future. "The dare-devil spirit which for a time promoted indulgence in liquor is passing." College students are coming to the belief that alcoholism and venereal disease are the two curses of America and of the rest of the world, and must be stamped...
...movies, colored pictures, and Eastern music, Mr. Thomas tells the story of the attempt which almost succeeded. But his lecture is chiefly based on the strange events of the expedition before it reached the mountain proper Many scenes never before filmed are shown, such as those of a Tibetan devil dance in one of the highest monasteries in the world. This is accompanied by weird music from the orchestra and is strangely attractive...
Catskill Dutch. Revival meetings are being more and more avidly seized upon by playwrights to furnish good stamping grounds for plays. They have so much natural drama in them, with everybody in sight fighting the Devil at the top of his voice, that any act which contains them virtually writes itself...
...Defoe, they started the novel off with a reputation from which it has barely recovered. During the eighteenth century especially it fared evilly among the colonists of the New World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock...
Rumania is at present between devil and sea. The hostile attitude of Russia toward her on account of the Bessarabian dispute (TIME, April 14) makes it imperative that she seek allies in case of Russian attack...