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...arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards, and did not take up quieter study until, wounded, aged 24, he turned philosophic disciple of Descartes' foe-Libertin Gassendi, who also taught great Dramatist Moliere. As a writer, however, Cyrano was definitely minor. Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift, Voltaire, Verne. Even Moliere...
Vermont promises to be the most rugged foe the Freshmen have faced. They have rolled up tremendous scores in their games this season, and their superior weight and experience together will make them a heavy favorite against the 1933 eleven...
Editor & Publisher, passionate professional champion of the daily press, Argus-eyed foe of publicity-seekers, last fortnight attacked Educator Nicholas Murray Butler for allowing Columbia University to conceal somewhere about its curriculum "a course in press agentry." Editor & Publisher viewed with alarm the growing profession of ''public relations counsel." It warned, editorially: "This is the business that Ivy L. Lee, Edward L. Bernays. William B. Shearer...
Other Characters. At the Front, frenzied and weary men lose their individuality, but those who stay at home reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
Last week Malta inhabitants, embittered, cluttered streets with anonymous pamphlets boldly labeled Perfido Strickland ("Perfidious Strickland"). Suddenly, it seemed, the "Prime Minister" had turned from friend to foe. For the most part Italian-speaking, individualistic, the Maltese have always leaned less toward the Britain that owns them than toward the Italy that is near them.* The Fascisti retaliate with friendship, bitterly realizing that possession of Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order...