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...seems that of these factors the most important is the first, which of course affects the item of living conditions, in the third. The other conditions are doubtless factors, but not of controlling importance. (For example, North Carolina now spends more than three times as much per year for Negro education as it spent on all education in 1900, yet 30,000 Negroes have left the state since last April...
Having won the Pulitzer Poetry Prize, having changed publishers and been married during the Spring and Summer as well as having been operated upon for appendicitis, Edna St. Vincent Millay doubtless now enjoys her convalescence with something like complacency. I cannot, somehow, think of her as complacent, however. This delicate, elfish woman is as restless, as full of vitality as a wheat field on a windy...
...individual estimates of authors in general avoid the irrelevant. The illustrations are for the most part well chosen. The whole slips down the throat as easily as junket. And if at times the book unavoidably reminds one of a somewhat hurried torchlight procession of famous literary figures - that is doubtless unavoidable. Considering what was attempted it is really extraordinary that what has been done should have been done so well...
...Doubtless the Alaskan community is quite as well nourished mentally with its restricted news diet as are some of us who find our nauseated way, if we read our newspapers fully, through elaborated and expatiated stories of crime and scandal and wander through a haze of speculative politics...
This is the more extraordinary for the reason that popular feeling against capital punishment is, if anything, on the increase. It can only be accounted for on the theory that people have concluded that women must assume the same responsibility for their acts as men. In addition it is doubtless true that the reaction resulting from sentimental acquittals has been even stronger than criminal lawyers have realized...