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...most quarters, the death of Alexander was viewed as a blow to France, since Alexander had withstood heavy German pressure and, veering away from his army chiefs, had expressed a definite desire for a French alliance...
...would have been more dignified to keep silence when so many hastened to speak, but Frieda Lawrence has never stood on her dignity. "I did not want to write this book," says she. "I wanted to give Lawrence my silence." Then, with refreshing candor: "Do I want to blow my own trumpet? Yes, I do. . . . I will try to write as honestly as I can. Lies are all very well in their place but the truth seems to me so much more interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book...
Consternation supreme reigns in Harvard Yard this week upon the startling news that two students who attended the Cambridge Institution of learning last year have discovered the error of their ways and have transferred to Yale. Harvard students met this blow with commendable level-headedness, however, and after meeting several hours behind locked doors, reported to the press that the whole thing is a dastardly Yale plot...
...hope of averting such a blow to Democratic prestige that the radio address was conceived, it was in this spirit that it was delivered, and with the average man, the Boston Herald to the contrary, in this purpose it is quite likely to succeed. DAEDALUS...
...companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...