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...competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
Should TIME desire it we shall be glad to compile and report more complete returns from this bit of helpful publicity...
...anyway in the heroine of his youth, his older wife, Murasaki* of the versatile wit and mature charm. "Coming from the presence of younger women, such as Nyosan, Genji always expected that Murasaki would appear to him inevitably (and he was willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...
...never mean to hit below the belt, but I felt that roll-call on prostitution was a bit below. ... So, in all conscience . . . I withdrew...
...Then this fool stepped back and swung his right against my jaw with every bit of his power. It landed flush, and stiffened me where I stood. Nobody saw the punch but Eddie Eagan who was standing there. And that was the last thing I remembered for two days...