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Hardly less spirited than the Herald Tribune was the Boston Herald: "The President's executive order is an amazing document . . . argumentative, bad-mannered, and offensive. . . . The alleged discourtesy of Colonel Lindbergh in giving out his letter to the President prematurely seems an act of studied, Chesterfieldian deference in comparison...
This film is not all that is title would seem to indicate, and in comparison with "A Man's Castle" it may appear weak. Nevertheless there pervades this production the same spirit of nonchalance and gay insolence which characterized Clark Gable's earlier work...
Roosevelt can rely, and has to count, on a vast public ignorance of the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren, on a press fairly corrupt, but sainted and pure by comparison with that of England and France, on the very slow distribution of all informative books on ALL subjects, and on the refusal of American publishing houses to take over the lead from London when they had the chance (now lost...
...James Boswell's 143-year-old Life of Samuel Johnson. Greatly daring, Author Hugh Kingsmill has written his own version, and his audacity has been successful. Though not comparable to Boswell's book in size (249 pp. to 1,104 pp.) Samuel Johnson can well afford comparison in other ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited his amorous propensities. Johnson's career-when he had already become the Great...
...that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...