PUBLIC OPINION
THE) BOOKSNEAF
“The pest who borrows your favourite books and does not return them is to be known in future as a booksneaf,” says the “Daily Herald.” “The new word has been invented by the Book Publishers’ Research Institute of New York. The Institute offered a library of fifty books as a prize for the best designation for book-lovers of politely thieving habits. Three judges were appointed as a committee, and from thousands of suggestions they selected ‘booksneak’ as the winning word.”
BEAUTY IX AX EXGIXE
“Beauty and utility are not opposed as so many people would suppose. Is a beautifully constructed petrol engine any less beautiful than the R.A. War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner merely because it has been designed to draw a lorry?” .gays 'Mr A. E. Evans, of the Battersea Polytechnic. “It is high time we abolished the intellectual snobbery which regards art, literature, music, and the classics as members of the aristocratic educational family, with science as a sort of distant cousin, and which spurns technology as- being illegitimate.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1931, Page 5
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176PUBLIC OPINION Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1931, Page 5
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