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...These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief contributors to a pleasant diversion which must still be mainly credited to the exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity...
Destroyers and Cruisers. In the destroyer category it may be possible to strike a simple ratio among the Powers, but cruisers come in so many sizes of such widely different fighting power that they present a highly complex problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class...
...Austria renounce her claims against the Little Entente on account of their seizures of Austrian lands and property; and let the Little Entente renounce their claims against Austria for reparations. Though this simple compromise gained much favor, it was by no means certain to be adopted, and the complex related issues touching Hungary and Rumania reared ugly heads...
...cosmopolitan and perverse Berlin, Sadism and kindred anomalies are well known and understood. The Sadist is recognized as an individual who commits acts of cruelty upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...
...principal causes of refunds resulting from overtaxation: 1) court rulings settling disputed intricacies of the revenue law, already complex beyond ordinary comprehension; 2) overpayments due to miscalculation by honest taxpayers. According to the Treasury, a vast majority of taxpayers figure and pay their taxes on the safe side, trusting the Treasury to return the change rather than inviting the Treasury's suspicion of them as tax-dodgers...