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...Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark...
Life used to run a series of cartoons called "The Skeptics Society" which showed earnest-looking savants solemnly testing and rejecting such saws as "A watched pot never boils" and " 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Last week, after four years of research, a Columbia University pedagog announced that he could disprove nearly all of such adages, superstitions and unfounded beliefs. He is Dr. Otis William Caldwell, 63, director of the Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, and he has checked up on superstition with many a questionnaire, many a column of figures. He calculates...
...South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures of corpses were sanctified by the watchword: "Crime Never Pays." On October 12, 1931 the Post's streamer read: CHRIS COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA...
...second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics have not fussed at their lack of profundity. "Wine Is My Weakness" and "With Eyes Like Thine, 'Tis Sin to Weep" are two new pieces the Viennese relished. If Sissy visits the U. S., Kreisler will take out tunes he has borrowed from Apple Blossoms, the operetta which he wrote in collaboration with Composer Victor Jacobi 13 years ago. Apple Blossoms never saw Vienna but it made Kreisler...
...little baggages with minds of their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached in Tessa and Gianetta's advice to their departing husbands, "It's understood you will be good, and not too gay . . . and not address a lady less than forty-five...