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...Shaw, undoubtedly a predominant and scintillant Socialist littérateur of the Victorian Age, whose genius has spread to the contemporary era where it shines like a beacon in the stagnant morass of "middleclass morality," burst forth in the last of his Fabian Society lectures in a vivid address on Is Civilization Decaying...
Books are not, in a sense, taciturn. A quite simple gesture may suffice to bring forth a perfect volume of verbosity from the most unassuming. But they are at a disadvantage. A book is quite incapable of button holing you. At any moment it may be reduced to completely submissive silence by the reader's merely turn ing away his head. But does all this reticence imply a Spartan fortitude, hiding intolerable pain...
...groaned Lampy tragically, "we've become funny." The Blot moaned and turned his face to the wall. "But I have a plan," murmured the Ibis at last. "We shall rent the walk of Plympton Street and cause to come forth a mighty geyser, that he who looks may wonder!" Lampy spat into the fire and then nodded his belled cap in glee...
...Chilean Ambassador to the U. S.) to U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who represented President Coolidge. The case for Peru was presented by the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington. Copies of both briefs (which consist of printed volumes of about 300 pages setting forth the arguments, and appendices containing copies of correspondence, other documents and maps) were handed over by the representatives of Chile and Peru for President Coolidge. Other copies were exchanged between the two litigants...
...this book is set forth very clearly the doctrines of restraint, good taste, and rounded living that are, of all that Greece produced, of the most use to us today. Sometimes one feels that we are hearing a little too learned a disquisition of the Republic of Plato, or of Aristotle's more abstract theories, but such moments are well balanced by detailed and very interesting descriptions of the practical, lived philosophy of the everyday Greek. And much of this is material that the average course of instruction, for instance, does not bother to tell us. Thus a whole section...