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Kansas City alone struck a new note: "Losses too nominal to warrant a comparison...
...their best to entertain the 1,000 strange guests, some of whom actually laughed before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult us ultimately decide against suicide." said the Advisory Centre's quiet, kindly secretary. "It seems to be in mutual comparison of their troubles that our clients profit most. So many think their own fate unbearable, only to learn that it is better than that of others they meet here...
...PENNINGTON-Francis Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just...
...American not to be aware that among the French there is hardly any drinking to excess, and that if a Frenchman sees a "staggering drunk" in Paris, he assumes that it is an American? American customs, as observed in France, have even enriched the French language by a new comparison: instead of ivre comme un Polonais, the familiar expression is now (alas!) saoul comme un Américain [drunk as an American...
Elected three years ago and considered "extremely moderate" in comparison with most German chambers elected since is the Prussian State Diet, representing two-thirds of the Fatherland. Last week the Diet debated revision of the Young Plan, soon to be considered by a new Reparations committee (TIME, Nov. 30). Quietly a motion was put demanding that the German Government seek "revision having for its aim complete cessation of any kind of tribute payments" (Germans consider Reparations "tribute...