Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine--the selection not awe-inspiring. Fletcher is a great arranger, but, he can't play piano . . . . Saxie Dowell, author of that damn tune about some fish...
...World War, there was a long debate over the barricades-in frightful tension, sleepless preparation, with frontiers closed and armies mobilized, the Pause of Guilt began. Over the darkened cities that had become haunted and despairing islands of last nights together, of work never to be done, of books unwritten, of children unseen, of dreams unfulfilled, over the countless acres of anguish, the ghosts of the last war and the ghosts of the next joined to gain an instant more...
Rensselaer's creed was stated in 1935 by the late Edwin S. Jarrett, then its acting president. After Communist Granville Hicks had been dismissed from Rensselaer's faculty, Mr. Jarrett said: "We adhere to an unwritten regulation of long standing that there shall be excluded from our classrooms all controversial discussions about politics, religion and sociology. Time devoted to such subjects . . . is . . .lost time. . . . We have developed and prospered under the capitalist regime. The men we have sent forth and who have become industrial leaders-have . . . richly endowed us. ... If we are condemned as the last refuge...
...Miss Garrod prepared to take her place next fall with Cambridge's 73 men professors, moot point was what she would wear to classes. Professors wear academic gowns, but by an unwritten rule no woman has so appeared in the University's halls. Last week the University authorities had not yet unraveled this question, but Miss Garrod gave them a hint by pointing out that a woman holding a titular Cambridge degree may wear a gown on "appropriate occasions...
Germany, Italy and Japan have found a way to stop this drain. But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...