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...Hirohito, son of Heaven, untouched (TIME, Jan. 18). But it inflicted slight flesh wounds on the rears of two horses of the Imperial Guard. Into their stables last week came two Imperial grooms carrying two baskets brightly bedecked with the Imperial colors. By curious Japanese signs they tried to explain to the horses that these were a gift from the Emperor. Then they watched the two horses appreciatively devour their eight pounds of Imperial carrots...
...like the towers, red and green. The bells, too, are not wholly obnoxious, But will someone who knows please explain to a bewildered electorate, WHAT THE HELL? (Name withheld by request...
...Folks talk a heap concerning progress, yet come to look at pictures of it and 'tis a mess." Maristan Chapman's Tennessee mountaineers think and speak throughout in such pithy proverbialisms. Their language is often outlandish?it takes a 62-word glossary to explain words like "bo-dacious," "fere." "hirpling," "survigrous,"' "smooch." These rough diamonds the author matrixes in a poetic style showing traces of T. F. Powys. J. M. Synge and the translators of the Holy Bible...
...roman halls where he can satisfy himself gloriously in singing Bach's B Minor Mass. In the Gloria and Et Resurrexit he can feel again the might of the church militant, triumphant and jubilant in its spirited movement. In the Crucifixus is the humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead him, the Vagabond succeeds in escaping the Georgian in order to turn back again to the shadowed richness of the Gothic...
...Board.* Into this measure the House had tucked a provision for a five-year moratorium on agricultural loans at the discretion of Farm Loan bankers. Before the Senate committee, last week, appeared Paul Bestor, Farm Loan Commissioner, to explain the working of his board, plead for more cash...