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...Manhattan. A Dutchman struggling against storm and wind to round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with...
...pleasure and tranquillity. At Brookdale. N. J. 30 yearlings tried their long thin legs against the time when they would be raced as two-year-olds. All were horses belonging to the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, and the men who took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME, Nov. 3) and it seemed possible that the Whitney colors, Eton blue and brown, made notable more than 50 years ago by grandfather William Collins Whitney, might disappear from the turf. Everything depended on what Mr. Whitney...
...their Manhattan bathtub (TIME, Oct. 20) received far more space in British dailies and weekly reviews than all four of President Herbert Hoover's recent speeches combined. "After all," cried the Manchester Guardian, No. 1 Liberal daily, "the most important thing of all is to be civilized. . . . The fate of a Jack Diamond is without significance in itself but the social attitude toward him is significant of much. . . . Here is a perfect illustration of the fallacy that a nation or city is civilized because it has wealth, law courts, colleges and libraries...
Midnight had struck. In the small hours the Chancellor tempted Fate, moved for a vote of confidence on adjournment. Yells, pounding on desk tops, wild minutes when every party in the Reichstag seemed to be bellowing at every other party: "Swine! . . . Grafters! . . . Liars! . . . Traitors...
...expansion program that would enable it to be a leader in the field of experimental theatre schools. Harvard would again be the site of good dramatic instruction and Harvard men could expect to follow in the steps of their now famous predecessors. But all of this hinges upon the fate of a school that is not a part of the University, and this fate has been unfavorably decided by a Department under the direct supervision of the United States Government which insists upon occupying the only building available to the school for the highly non-academic pastime of drilling...