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...athletic administration, has already done its work so far as Brown is concerned by the absence of the Brown game in 1928. There would be no cry of intersectionalism to answer in a decision to revive the relations of these two New England football teams. There would be no protest of overemphasis, for the game could not be one pointed to throughout the season. The danger of creating a fixture has already been settled by breaking this year the long consecutive meetings of the two universities...
...peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate of $1.00 a day. And to cap the climax, the mayor of Little Rock answers a telegram of protest. "No atheist will be permitted to maintain headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., if I can prevent...
...TIME, July 30); and therefore factional leaders see in the "Grand Party" the doom of their petty potency. "The Grand Party is being formed," thundered Factionist Soto y Gama last week, "solely to perpetuate the rule of Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood! ... I and my followers protest! ... Let us not adore idols. . . . We defy the powers of. . . ." Before Senor Soto y Gama could specify what powers he and his propose to defy, the Congress hall shivered slightly and Deputies cried, "Earthquake! Earthquake!" Then they hopped and bolted out the door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that...
Though to those eyes and ears which do not abide Restoration drama in all its grossness this expurgated edition may be accepted with loss protest. A keen admirer of the Restoration gentleman, with all his artifices and crass language, chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure...
...Members of the Presbyterian Church are presumed to possess minds and consciences of their own. Many of them will not agree with the Moderator as to the chief issues in this campaign. They may feel constrained to support Mr. Norman Thomas* as a protest against much that is sub-Christian in the platforms of both of the large parties. Or they may decide to vote for Governor Smith because they sincerely believe that prohibition does not really secure the maximum of temperance or for some other of his policies...