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Concerning family life in New Ireland: "The selection of a mate is a simplified matter. . . . The young swain (usually about twelve) calls in a love magician . . . [who] casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
...Finally, we hear of 'Artistic Imperialism'; we hear that America draws to herself all of Europe's great artists. But is that the fault of the Americans? An artist is a man, a man like another man, and it is not surprising that he would rather sing, paint or play the piano for $1,000 a day in the United States than for $1,000 a month in Europe...
Borotra won the first set, 6-0. It was a bitter match and the crowd sided against Tilden. In the second set, Tilden began to find fault with the linesmen, stared suggestively at the umpire, made repeated requests for quiet as the crowd cheered Borotra. Tilden won the second set and lost the third, 4-6. Borotra, saving himself for the last, dropped the fourth with out winning a game. When the score reached 4-all in the last set, Tilden drew Borotra to the net and played his backhand until the Frenchman, reaching for a passing shot, lost...
...need more faith in ourselves. Largely because of some decline in trade we have set about finding fault with nearly everybody and everything. Yet our government, our physical properties and our industries have changed very little from a year or two ago, when people were fairly content...
...Robeson says her husband has a fault: he is lazy. Beyond that she will not go. To a friend in London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...