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...guests. C¶ President Coolidge transmitted to the Senate the text of the Paris reparations agreement which had aroused the fears of some Senators that it was an "entanglement" (TiME, Jan. 6, Feb. 2). With the document was a letter from Secretary Hughes explaining that the agreement did not commit the U. S. to enforce the Experts' Plan if Germany should default, that it had nothing of the nature of a treaty, that it was merely an executive agreement whereby the U. S. is to receive money owing from Germany by getting a share of the reparations payment...
Several times before a peerage had been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
SILENCE-A heedless melodrama with many flaws and an enormous amount of excitement. H. B. Warner is the hero crook who did not commit the murder...
...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
...haughty man of the hour turns his back on the bull, receives his sword and muleta (a brilliant scarlet cloth hung from a short stick) and addresses himself to the president of the fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...