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Goebbels, Goering, and, to a lesser extent, Hitler himself, have behaved since last March in such a manner as to convict themselves either of the desire to go to war or of a stupendous inability to chart their own course. For the essentials of their propaganda are capable of no other interpretation, and that propaganda they have brewed with uncommon energy and ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand...
PERHAPS it is a testament to the intellectual vitality of Gertrude Stein that no one has thus far been able to chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes...
...internes rush off the stage as though the devil had them by the coat tails when it is announced that a patient with lacerated wrists has been brought into the emergency ward. You may smile when, in the second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior...
...manager of the Rochester, N. Y. office of L. F. Rothschild & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers, last week banned women from his boardroom. "Women are usually star readers or chart followers," he explained. "They try to influence others with their theories. Some used to grab our mail before it was opened...
...Rock Chart. Toward the close of the Congress, Chief Geologist Dr. Timothy William Stanton of the U. S. Geological Survey proudly exhibited a variegated rectangle 87x51 in.-an elaborate chart of all U. S. rocks, in 23 colors arranged in 160 units. It summarized the Survey's work since 1879. filled a long-felt need of schools. Said Dr. Stanton: "In 1911 we had a map, but it was far less complete and detailed. Also for more than 15 years past it has been out of print...