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...authority on etiquette. He has that faculty of telling you exactly where your trousers should be creased. He dresses with as much care as Hugh Walpole; but by a regular adherence to the rules of the daily dozen, his weight has remained that of a young man of grace and poise...
Edward Mandell House of Austin, Texas, (Colonel by the grace of a former Governor of that state, who made him his aide-de-camp without asking permission) sailed for Europe a few days ago. Shortly after his departure, Foreign Affairs, the excellent quarterly published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., an organization connected with the Williamstown Institute of Politics, in the interests of international understanding, published an article under his name, entitled The Running Sands...
...best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness in their reading matter. The plot−involving a Frenchman picked up on the battlefield, who suffers complete loss of memory, recovers in a German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered...
...Chairman, J. T. Baldwin, Eleanor Sutton; F. K. Kernan, Grace Sargent; S. C. Graves Jr., Mary Hall; L. Nichols; R. Field, J. S. Clark...
...Chairman, W. H. Bowker, Edith Hill; F. W. Taylor; Elsie Burgess; C. W. Turner, Antoinette Carillo; C. H. Sawyer, Grace Elwell; K. Reardon, Margaret McDonald; E. McCurdy, Dorothy Morgan; H. E. Graham, Amy Edmands; B. H. McCurdy, Gertrude Stone; P. Hurd, margaretha Hackebarth...