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...Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...trial upon the above charges, which has been denied me. "The repeated, published assertion of your president that he will put the superintendent out; the degradation of your school system in the eyes of the entire country by editorial condemnation of this trial as a farce and vaudeville; the cloud of aspersion you permit to remain on your best teachers that they recommended to the superintendent the adoption of poisoned books; the effect on your school children of the "continued newspaper characterization of your proceedings as a travesty on justice; the repeated and uncontradicted editorial designation of this trial...
Although Rumania is still under a censorship cloud, it being a punishable offense to mention Prince Carol's name, either orally or in writing (the newspapers overcome the difficulty by leaving blank spaces for his name), the court took no objection to it, speakers on both sides referring to him as Prince Carol of Hohenzollern...
...metal, which was in effect a section of the earth's surface. When a thundercloud hung over his plate and lightning blazed, he found by means of extremely delicate instruments that the electrical potential of the plate changed. This was the electrical image of what happened in the cloud, one surface (usually the upper) was positively charged, the other negatively. When discharge occurred...
...first post-war Ambassador was Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, who incurred some sharp criticism when he refused to lower the German flag to half mast on the occasion of ex-President Woodrow Wilson's death. The second was Baron von Maltzan, who, although starting his diplomatic mission under the cloud of his predecessor, finally had achieved conspicuous success and popularity at the time of his death?an event which occasioned nationwide sympathy and sorrow...