Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother...
Triangle shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method...
...that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than the Literary Digest, the Pathfinder, or many a damp American daily. Are they not using Prohibition as an advertising scheme to increase circulation? Yet I have never seen your paper take insinuating cracks at them...
Tartly the Hoover spokesman told the Commission that a scheme which provides for "budgetary limitation" is likely to have as its chief effect the encouragement of crooked budget bookkeeping...
...Henry Fund scholars to be chosen by an organization similar to the Rhodes selecting committee, since it would seem that a group composed of men from all parts of the country could best consider applications coming anywhere from Maine to California. The founders of the Fund evidently rejected this scheme, possibly because they felt that the limited number of awards makes a small committee desirable. It may also be argued on this side that, since the English students are to come to Yale and Harvard, it is well that the administration of the Fund in America be in the hands...