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...times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as rigid as the face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads...
...brief and not very glorious annals of the Mexican War (1846-48) include certain quaintly sketchy chapters on U. S. naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton...
Some of Phil La Follette's last acts in office were regarded as none too glorious for a high-minded Progressive. The attempted draining of the State Treasury was one. Another was the pardoning of Thomas M. Duncan, part owner of the Milwaukee Leader and long Phil La Follette's executive secretary and financial adviser. One night last March, Duncan, who had been drinking, careened through the outskirts of Milwaukee in his automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge...
...without misgivings. The aunt was from the Middle West, you see. To her the glorious traditions of the Copley meant naught. Nevertheless she was not to be caught napping. Without batting an eye she ordered steamed clams for the opening round. A warm glow of pride enveloped her admiring nephew; the old lady was acquitting herself nobly. She knew the ropes. So he relaxed. But you know what pride goes before...
...Sixty Glorious Years (Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook; TIME...