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...First there is the Negro, ten and a half million in number, about a tenth of the whole population. They have not, they cannot attain the Anglo-Saxon level. Both biology and anthropology prove it ... The records, authoritative and unemotionally scientific, show the Negro to be specially susceptible to tuberculosis and alarmingly vitiated by veneral infections . . . There could never be intermarriage between the whites and blacks without God's curse upon our civilization...
...start, the individual work of the Harvard eleven--particularly the playing of Captain Hubbard--was no small consolation in defeat and raises hopes for the future. So far, it is true, the Harvard team has not been welded into a powerful unit; but there is no surer way to attain this unity than in the testing fire of such a game as Saturday...
...lobby singing: " London's best is falling down, falling down, falling down! " For that is what it did. It brought to American audiences little except exquisite taste, a striking shadow scene, a few smart lines. Produced in the intimate and expensive atmosphere of the Century Roof, it may attain a factitious popularity. The Magic Ring. There is an antique ring and whoever wears it links arms with luck. The heroine starts out as a poor organ grinder. And does she get the ring? And does she marry the lovely fella in the last act? One, two, three, all together...
...most important appointment is that of Herr Hilferding to the Ministry of Finance. Hilferding is a Jew and the Socialist editor of Die Freiheit. In politics he has distinct leanings toward Bolshevisnu but believes in moderate means to attain his ends...
Sidi Mohammed-el-Hadib, Bey of Tunis: " I visited France and inspected some aviation camps. Said I: ' My religion does not permit flying; it is likely to give the Almighty the impression an insignificant mortal is trying to attain heights to which he is not entitled before death...