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Amusement taxes such as this are intended to strike, not productive activities, but the excess income used for recreation. They are meant to increase the cost of luxuries while leaving money oarmarked for necessities inviolate. This tax, however, will pinch college activities which are now regarded as necessary to the health and welfare of the students. Football is the support of all other college sports, for it is the only one which draws crowds large enough to pay. If the new tax is passed by the Senate, the revenues from football will inevitably decrease. It would be unwise to make...
...Pinch hitter" (emergency batsman) was corned by Manager McGraw to describe Samuel Strang Nicklin, oldtime Giant (later a concert singer) who, aged 56, died last week in Chattanooga...
...Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton in this picture (faintly derived from Her Cardboard Lover, which Leslie Howard and the late Jeanne Eagels acted on the stage) works out well. Durante is worried about his huge and remarkable nose. The nose is worried by the other characters who tweak it, pinch it, slam doors against it. Durante is an urbane but eccentric chauffeur who speaks French with a Brooklyn accent. He gets a chance to use his favorite word when Polly Moran, as a maidservant, rebuffs him with the door. ''You may think that mortifies me," cries Durante. "It spurs...
...short of estimated expenditures, President Angell has announced. Accordingly, expenditures are to be reduced by 10 per cent. As any one familiar with the affairs of American universities knows, Yale's financial troubles are by no means exceptional. Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, and Chicago are known to be feeling the pinch of the depression. There is probably not a single endowed institution which has not suffered more or less, and most of the state institutions are also facing the problem of continuing their work on reduced incomes...
...State whose Polytechnic Institute at Auburn he has headed for ten years. As scientific tender for this request, he last week reported that he had concentrated the relatively vast amount of 1/400,000th of a gram of alabamine in combination with lithium, light-weight brother of fugitive virginium. The pinch of new compound may well be termed a second cousin of common kitchen salt...