Word: differently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only criterion of whether or not a sex play is pernicious is good taste. And good taste is a criterion impossible to apply, not only because good taste and public taste differ. Good taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what...
...been said with truth that we differ from the Romans in that we like our thrills in tabloid form whereas they chose to get their sensations at closer hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury...
...Grover Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...people said that President Coolidge's personal attitude is not likely to differ widely from that of the Federal Council...
...with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application"; that therefore the bill "violates the first essential of due process of law." There are eight Biblical versions of "the story of the Divine Creation," some of them quite contradictory...