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...RUBAIYAT of Omar Khayyám-Button-illustrated by "Fish," $7.00; illustrated by Hope Weston...
Books are not, in a sense, taciturn. A quite simple gesture may suffice to bring forth a perfect volume of verbosity from the most unassuming. But they are at a disadvantage. A book is quite incapable of button holing you. At any moment it may be reduced to completely submissive silence by the reader's merely turn ing away his head. But does all this reticence imply a Spartan fortitude, hiding intolerable pain...
...Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard?I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders...
...despair-he had suffered many minor indignities and now, at last, he heard that a handsome young puppet was to take his place with the fascinating but callous Annabelle Lee. Maddened by jealousy and shame, after a pitiful attempt at reconciliation, he extracted his wife's one shoe-button eye with a pair of shears and committed suicide by leaping out of the window. The event caused little stir.. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane were married and soon departed to California, with Amy May, Annabelle Lee (re-eyed) and her new husband, Mr. Romeo, leaving only Papa Jonas...
Though 17 years old, she is not the youngest player to hold our highest honors. Nearly a decade ago 17-year-old May Button (now Mrs. Thomas C. Bundy) took the title. She was a few months younger than is Miss Wills this August...