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Some will assert that Mr. Hoover has merely employed a new "ghost" writer. Such inquiry is at once bootless and pointless. The energy of the "rejuvenated Hoover" sallying forth with freshly sharpened lance is apparent. His ideas seem partially refurbished, and his verbal thrusts are aimed with a delicacy and deadliness that must excite the envy of English pig-sticking enthusiasts. His delivery has been revolutionized, but the logic behind it is as direct as heretofore...
...teacher will be in advance of the school-committee in "crystalizing" his knowledge of the significance of current affairs. At the risk of appearing cynical, one is tempted to suggest that Dr. Wilson overestimates the alertness of the average teacher and, far more important, neglects the capacity for bootless anxiety, which characterizes the mental state, and inspires the interference, of his committeeman...
...Mattern should be allowed to perform a dangerous and bootless flight for Chicago's glory does not seem clear. But the enthusiast for variety should not condemn our aviators without a hearing, for in comparison with other daredevils they have displayed a real fecundity of invention. Mr. Brody jumped, and seldom featly, from all our great bridges, and there was in his contortious a lack of grace monotonous to all but the local Chambers of Commerce. Many barrels ricocheted over Niagara Falls before Buffalo was convinced that the idea had lost its original savor...
...desk in Shanghai last week, peered keenly through tortoise rimmed glasses at a respectful group of correspondents, read in flawless English a crisp, resolute announcement. He was sick and tired, he said, of raising the scores of millions of dollars which Nationalist China has been squandering annually on bootless wars. He, T. V. Soong, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, would no more be a party to China's orgy of military waste. In fine, he announced his resignation as Finance Minister of the Nationalist Government. "I prefer to retire," concluded Banker Soong, "rather than face...
...Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while hunting in France...