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TIME has promised to abandon Tycoon when a better word is found. Big Shot is the best substitute yet offered. But it is not good enough.-ED. Keen-Edged Puukko Knife...
...Homo Orientalis works just sufficiently to provide food and shelter for himself and his dependents. Up to the present time Homo Europeus has regarded work as a means to an end. ... He has always been ready to abandon it for intellectual joys when he felt his future was assured...
Happily, the second act was much better. Miss Cowl as Viola strode about very bravely, and even if she did wave her hands about with her usual abandon, she was very pleasant. It is true that she was a thoroughly feminine Cesario, but she is so accomplished an actress that the distortion was unnoticed. Maria as played by Jessie Ralph was happily an oldish and slightly vulgar wench, and hence a very fitting companion for the raucous Sir Toby...
This was just what Minister Maginot was driving at. Motorization was not enough. He was ready last week to abandon universal military service, traditional in France since the 18th Century committee of public safety, for a Quality Army of paid volunteers on the German. British, U. S. model. Sententiously commented Perfumer Coty's Le Figaro: "The strength of the French Army is the best guarantee of the peace of Europe...
...written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which had been his occupation, and study natural processes. After a course in general medicine, he specialized in neurology. One day, Dr. Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, told him about a girl cured of hysteria by recollecting under hypnosis certain forgotten experiences. From that time, Freud persisted...