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Mayan Mosaic (Carnegie Institution). In the "Temple of the Warriors" at Chichenitza, stupendous Mayan ruin in Yucatan, President John Campbell Merriam and Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution watched amazed as Earl Morris, their associate on the expedition, scraped away the filth that for centuries had hidden a beautiful mosaic disc containing several hundred pieces of polished turquoise. It had been lying under the carved and painted Mayan altar discovered two years ago and is the "most artistic and elaborate of all known relics of Mayan civilization...
After this purely political appeal, Lawyer Gabaldon settled down to cases. He flayed Katherine Mayo, the palpitant, middle-aged maiden lady from Manhattan, whose Isles of Fear preceded her Mother India as a sensational bestseller, calling her a "vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even...
When the Gooding subcommittee reported formally, it said it had found "serious" conditions but no starvation. It particularized about shooting, housing, filth, vermin, Negro strikebreakers, coal and iron police, demoralized eviction camps. It implicitly blamed the operators for letting such conditions arise. It called the miners courageous. It recommended that the coal industry be legislated back to prosperity...
Rome she finds "a dirty little anthill of Italian filth." Caesar, her lover, "talks like a very king of kings, but acts like a delicatessen-storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia...
...claim your newsmagazine to be nonpartisan. Why then labor to insult President Coolidge (June 20, pp. 6-7)? A bit of filth flung in 1924, and you have cherished it all this time t Is this news ? And is it not proper to infer therefrom that your claim to be non-partisan...