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...conclusion, Mr. Chamberlin remarked "there are good reasons for thinking that the public interest will be distinguished from that of business and be more effectively heard in the future. Looking backward, it seems no less than a nightmare that business should have been handed a blank check, as it was under General Johnson, to 'govern itself' with no thought for the consequences. The present set-up of boards makes it much more possible to look at problems from several angles instead of only one. for a long time to come, however, public gains will be realized only slowly, and much...
...primary requisite is a faith as positive as possible in the realm of the unknown Such a faith can be attained, and advanced, only by a society which feels a need for it. But to require a man, in the most skeptical stage of his life, to listen to backward doctrines is injurious in the extreme. He will seek to satisfy the needs religion should fill in other, less beneficial ways; and the results will surely wreak harm to an age that cannot withstand many more drains on the morals, the fairness to its students, and out of consideration...
...balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre. Dosing with hormones...
...method of telling a story backward is not new, either in fiction or on the stage. Merrily We Roll Along rolls along considerably less merrily after the end of the second act when it has become completely apparent that the tragedy which Authors Kaufman and Hart are unveiling with such deliberate irony is the old and familiar one of an artist turned successful hack. Superbly staged by Kenneth MacKenna's brother, Jo Mielziner; superbly acted by the biggest cast seen in a legitimate Broadway production this season, Merrily We Roll Along is an amusing and affecting study of interesting...
...Less backward about the unpleasant details of Mrs. Vanderbilt's life was Gloria's nurse. When the trial was transferred to open court Nurse Keislich told of peeking through a door with Mrs. Morgan one night at Biarritz, seeing Prince Friedrich von Hohenlohe in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bedroom. Concluded Nurse Keislich triumphantly: "He had on pajamas and she had on night clothes...