Word: label
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently, the editors of The Lampoon (humorous publication at Harvard University) printed a picture of a temple with a label: "Temple of Business." They inscribed upon a prominent portion of its architecture the names Ponzi, Arnstein, Shylock, Doheny...
...gimmick" is a person who puts a price tag on everything he sees and a label on everything he thinks. Most musicians pride themselves on not being gimmicks. To differentiate themselves from this clan, they wear their hair longer; their neckties, their phrases, are more picturesque. The only criticism they fear is the accusation that they fear criticism, that they are trying to make themselves as gimmicks are. Not so Vincent Lopez, famed jazzbo. Music, he says, should ape business. Orchestras should have labels, price tags; the labels should stand for quality. Jazz is a commodity, like canned food...
...Woll is one of the powers in American Labor. His committee of trade-union men pleaded that all prayer-books, religious literature and articles used in churches should bear a label signifying that it had been produced by American union labor...
...Harvard Catholic Forum seems to me unfortunate. The Episcopal Church, and particularly the most ardently Catholic portion of it, has reiterated times without number, its complete detachment in regard to the debate of the Fundamentalists and Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than...
...Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter is the single notable addition to the cinema gallery for the week. Addicts will recall the first Potash and Perlmutter film with considerable satisfaction. The second (derived from the play Business before Pleasure) is quite as entertaining. The four-star label on the billboards displays the names of Alexander Carr, George Sidney, Vera Gordon and Betty Blythe. When Abe takes to kicking the lion under the impression that it is a dog in disguise, there is really no point in anyone's retaining his gravity. The subtitles are even more diverting...