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Here was a German who, far from being the ogre that war propaganda would have us believe, was a sportsman and a gentleman. He took a sporting chance to get through the blockade, and once through it he justified the chance. Not a ship did he destroy without first removing the crew and offering them the very good hospitality of his own vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow...
...barely won the championships over Finland. So narrow was the margin that weak women in the tournament might well destroy one of the proudest of U. S. records...
...pretty bit of ceremony to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the United States first treaty, or as a fitting, if anticlimactical, acknowledgement of Lindbergh's accomplishments in diplomacy, the peace pact signed simultaneously yesterday in Washington and Paris was most successful. As an effective measure to destroy any possibility of Franco-American hostilities, it may be said to order on the inane. For it, covers all bellicose situations except "as such disputes related to the Monroe Doctrine, France's obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party...
...Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which Mr. Sherwood criticizes so capably when he is not editing Life or commenting on music for The New Yorker...
...funds, is put into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed they do not already, exist. Thus we can be assured of a regular supply of fresh air without draught, and consequently of a reading room which will increase rather than destroy the mental alacrity of its users. Those who desire to sleep will have in future to seek the cinema, which is much more admirably fitted for that form of inactivity anyway. Yours very truly, Varian...