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...case is one of contract law, in which the plaintiff, one Emil Borah, is suing one Nathaniel P. Banks et al. for debts. Bank et al. are members of a business or "Massachusetts" trust, which includes in its constitution some of the features of a partnership and some of those pertaining to a corporation. Borah, who has made a contract with the company, is suing the individual members of the trust for the money involved, and the point to be argued is whether he can collect from the individual members of the company. This case is of timely interest...
...sins of the reviewer are legion, so alas! are the provocations thereunto. It may therefore border perilously on the affected to exclaim, "Oh yes, we have been bored and bored but eccovi, here is a book that is different!" Et cetera...
...said, save that it is like the technique, style, and manner of every scribbler for "woodpulp publications", garnished previously with a touch of sauciness and rather new spice. We say "previously" advisedly; for as has been hinted, his "Tales" fall below even the standard set by "Flappers" et al.; the sauciness has run dry and the spice become flat and tasteless. The "Tales" show a marked weakening. Fitzgerald went up like a rocket; but now that he has reached his apex and is in danger of descending like the stick, he should spare himself and his public any further humiliation...
...academie des Philosophes sur l'amour"; belonged to what court lady? No lady at all but to the staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened and not only...
...this industrial machine to get started without capital or credit? Lenin's advice, echoing Gambetta's famous saying, "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail", is excellent--the whole world needs it--but first of all it needs cash and credit. A lottery, as is now proposed, is a poor way to go about getting money, and refusal to recognize past obligations a poor way to go about getting credit. This is true even under a Government that pretends to be of the Workers, by the Workers and for the Workers. The New York Times...