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Conspicuous in the New York Times of yesterday is the startling announcement. "Traces of Hairpin and Button Factory, 2000 years old, found by Count de Prorok." Utica, the oldest Punic City in North Africa is the scene of the excavations, which disclosed more than a hundred hairpins and almost two dozen buttons. The explorers are working continuously, spurred on by the hope of finding a really ancient hairpin factory. This no doubt would be an achievement and the Count de Prorok could expect nothing less than immortality for his reward, while the faithful members of his little band could hold...
...from Ghent to Aix in the recent Senatorial fight over Warren's cabinet appointment will surely become history. There is a universal appeal in the thought of the picturesque President of the Senate abruptly terminating his slumbers; hastily adorning himself amid gentle remarks to an elusive garter or collar-button; writhing in a taxi with crimson face and twitching fingers: and addressing soothing epithets to a conscientious traffic-cop; bounding, three at a time, up the Capitol steps, slithering through its polished corridors, and catapulting himself at last into the turbulent Senate-chamber,--only to find the battle lost...
...PRIME MINISTERS OF BRITAIN, 1721-1924-The Hon. Clive Bingham- Button ($5.00). A detailed biographical outline of the 39 Prime Ministers who have held office from the accession of George I into the reign of George V, starting with Walpole, ending with MacDonald. The present Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, is also included, as he is now enjoying his second term of office. Adequately and excellently but not brilliantly written...
...skyscraper,* sleeps in the open air. One morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses in a warm room, climbs pajamaed into bed, presses a button, the bed slides out to the roof, an automatic door opening before it, closing behind it. Financier Doherty awakes, presses a button, the bed crawls into his room, the door clicks, he dresses...
LOVES AND LOSSES OF PIERROT-William Griffith-Button ($2.00). The prose of this age is positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce...