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...President Coolidge nominated Miss Genevieve R. Cline, Cleveland customs appraiser, to be a judge of the U. S. Customs Court. Miss Cline's confirmation by the Senate would make her the first woman ever elevated to the U. S. judiciary...
...speech and motion pictures will be preceded at 6.30 o'clock by a dinner in honor of Dr. Strong. The invited guests include H. J. Spinden '06, of the Peabody Museum, W. B. Cline '24, of the Peabody Museum, Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University, T. H. Culhane '29, Lawrence Coolidge '27, and K. D. Robinson...
...page, leapt into bed and pulled the blankets up around his ears, to quiver and quake the rest of the night. "Dracula" and "She" belonged to that school and fulfilled its requirements patly. Probably the fact of our early attachment to those volumes accounts for our disappointment in Mr. Cline's latest novel. "The Dark Chamber...
...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...
Much has been said and written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...