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...whitewashed professor's lecturn that was rigged up next to the Chinese Dragon statue outside Boylston Hall early this week was all Mickey's idea. "I'm a great student of history," he said last June, "and I want to know what it says on that statue. It may be something of vast importance...
...Upton Sinclair. TIME reviewed Wide Is the Gate, vol. 4 of Author Sinclair's serial-in-progress. Dragon Harvest is vol. 6. And the doldrums are more than midsummer...
...complain about the midsummer doldrums in literature. It is barely possible that you may be helping to cause these doldrums. Many of your readers might be interested to know about a best-selling novel called Dragon Harvest...
...hung with signs: "7 League Boots Now 6.98"; "Seek Grailo, Even Better Than the True Grail." Defying the "roaring . . . Tarcomed [and] the surly Nacilbuper" (The White Deer's proper nouns sometimes read best backwards). The Prince passed the Moaning Grove of Artanis and bested the famed Seven-headed Dragon. This wasn't really such a bold feat, because the Dragon ran by clockwork, and the Prince bribed the mechanic not to wind...
...subsequent list of seven supposed members of the militaristic Black Dragon Society had to be revised rapidly. Two of the seven were dead, one of them since 1938. A third was not a member. A fourth name, that of onetime Premier Koki Hirota, who in 1936 signed the anti-Comintern pact, was removed without explanation...