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...sickening, sliding motion it had started to earth while gas-tanks, oil-cans, girders crashed about. It landed near a grove with 22 survivors. At some point in the maelstrom, Lieut. Sheppard was thrown from the hulk. His body was found a mile from the main wreckage, a bit of guy-rope in one hand, a bit of rigging in the other...
...radical government in Southern China with headquarters at Canton has for a long time taken things into its own hands, but last week it went a bit too far according to British and Japanese notions. It issued a manifesto denying British and Japanese ships the use of certain ports including Canton; it allowed ships of other nations to visit those ports provided they did not call at Hongkong (British enclave); it provided for inspection of foreign vessels visiting ports by pickets of the Anti-Imperialist Union...
...Significance. Editor Ellery Sedgwick of The Atlantic Monthly lately assured the English that they were a most unprejudiced people who regarded toleration as a cardinal virtue. Here is further evidence for that contention, so far as English authors are concerned. The Monkey Puzzle, slightly awkward, a bit thin-blooded, is still visibly related to Shaw's Candida. Powy's Mr. Trasker's Gods...
...keep that intricate bit of landscape at its pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...proposition that is for the common good. . . The basis is a need for something to bring big business men together in a way that no other organization can, to enable them to do good work for the good of the community. . . Mr. Lewis is just a little bit off his trolley...