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...another critic of lipstick and rolled stocking, a self-appointed censor of the beaches--who knows? That in the face of this sinister warning of a fell future purpose the Princeton men bravely declared that such trousers as theirs "were the thing among college men" is a theme for epic and song. May their heroic action not go unrecognized...
Died. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, 79, Swiss epic poet and essayist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature; at Lucerne. He wrote in German...
...Rockefeller may thereby be induced to increase his Christmas present from a nickle to a dime. Perhaps this is a cooked up story and Cal is simply carrying on a little propaganda to help along the Christmas spirit of giving. At all events, here is the matter for an epic, and a troubadour must be found...
...robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create a national legend, or at least a ballad to the man who dropped the dime...
...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...