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...issue involved. To say that no memorial shall be raised to men who gave their lives for a cause unless those who died on the other side are included is either to condemn the cause as unworthy of the sacrifice; or to say, like barbarians, that all warfare is glorious, and that all who died in battle are to be honored simply because they were warriors...
...this he follows after him. His old friend tomorrow is to speak on Paris in Emerson F. It is not a lecture on the Paris of today; the Cafe de la Paix, Auteuil and the Davis Cup, but on the Paris of Haussmann, Du Maurier and other indistinct and glorious figures. The Vagabond will go, therefore, and forget Divisionals, Finals, and vacation before the wonders of a house where Trilby once had lived, or a bridge where D'Artagnan once had fought...
...before the tumult had subsided on his return from Paris; I've heard it from each of you, and yesterday Lindbergh and I toyed with it-a crossing at 25,000 feet; far above an unfriendly ocean; at 300 miles an hour; no fog, no ice. and a glorious sky overhead-well, not yet, but we hope, soon!" The flyers who lauded Dr. Kimball were well aware that his service to them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay." He dislikes the notion that...
...This is my second attack of radio-induced "cacocthes scribendi"; Christmas Day the glorious music of Philco made me realize that there may be a Heaven after all! I'm reconciled if Saint Peter will allow Leopold Stokowski to direct the harps-with a few wind instruments added as a concession to modernity...
...took lessons from a tutor while playing her first lead eight years ago, Fay Wray has since distinguished herself by extreme versatility in incongruous roles. Mauritz Stiller gave her a leading part in Street of Sin. Later she was billed with Gary Cooper as one of "Paramount's Glorious Young Lovers." In The Finger Points (see above) Actress Wray impersonates a sweetly scrupulous girl reporter...