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...almost 20 years since he had been there. It was characteristic that he had made no fuss about going back. Doubtless he subscribed to the popular belief that it was his successor, General George Washington Goethals, who "put the Canal through." And indeed General Goethals did: he conquered that greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever, so that the blue prints might come true. But to the blue print aspect of the Canal no man contributed more than John F. Stevens did during his regime, from June, 1905, to April, 1907. Before he resigned President Taft had named him "Father...
...most intimate of intimate musical comedies, the last word in informality. For a large part of the play, plot is disregarded, and everyone on the stage proceeds to have a good time. So does everyone in the audience. There is no attempt made at ostentation--absolute lack of fuss or pretense of any kind is one of the show's chief charms We are all so accustomed to the professional air in musical comedy, where the audience is patronized and made to feel it will get its money's worth and no more, that the unstudied informality and zest...
TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parrish - Harpers ($2). Anne Parrish and her brother Dillwyn must have had a collection of aunts, grandmothers and female neighbors all of whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture...
...Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates to do it is to give something for nothing, that is, empty space for heavy camouflage that should (he feels) be paid for at advertising rates. Publishers' trade sheets fuss and fume with "exposes" of "moulders" and "agents" specially dangerous to the publishing weal...
...Significance. Easy-going foreigners wondered vaguely, "Why all this fuss about the Tyrolese? Aren't they the people who wear those funny little hats?" To such paragons of unconcern an embittered Tyrolese might have answered as follows: "We of the Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among...