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Four times as many men as women commit suicide, except in Spain where the ratio is three men to one woman. In Spain more married men than bachelors kill themselves. Elsewhere the bachelors are more often self-destructive. Frenchmen and Italians are less suicidal than Norwegians, Swedes or Germans...
...Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers of the New York Herald-Tribune, and now he has produced a searching essay on the English which Americans should not pass up, and which the English should commit to memory in order to start building up a common foundation of understanding between the two people...
...that he lied like a gentleman. [He] would at least have had the respect of the community if he had picked up a gun and mowed down his wife's assailants when she first identified them at the hospital instead of waiting four months to commit murder...
...down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge of the farmer-philosopher civilization indigenous to Iowa. Says he: "I was an lowan for 17 years. Once in a while they commit suicide or there's a baby the village hadn't expected. But take the run of them and they're pretty good, salty folks." Of novel-writing: "Last summer I went at it scientifically. I got in good physical condition. I'd take a cold bath, wear only shorts, have...
...conviction there has been no evidence discovered indicating Mooney's innocence. . . . Mooney and the radicals publicly and privately opposed the Preparedness Day parade. .Their insensate hatred of our present form of government and a desire to substitute the Red flag for the Stars & Stripes impelled them to commit the deed. Mooney and [Warren K.] Billings entered into a conspiracy to terrify the citizens by exploding a bomb. Billings, tool and agent of Mooney, carried the bomb in a suitcase. . . . Mooney has not presented any facts in support of his petition which have not heretofore been presented. . . . The 'frame...