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...these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
...ample facilities to satisfy his physical needs. I do not ask for the same beverage as that used by Gargantua, but I should like to have our directors provide us with some good cold water in various handy places in the library. If this is not done, it may happen that a tired or absent minded student, leaning back in his chair and yawning noisily, will yell, to the disturbance of many: "A boire." Alex Chalufour...
...Insofar as the Monroe Doctrine refers to Brazil, the Argentine, Chile and Peru, Canada would probably stand aside. It is the future of the West Indies that concerns her. If it should ever happen that any of the islands now owned by other European nations should become salable, the Canadian might find his own interest leading him to urge Britain to purchase it, and he might be unwilling to admit that the Monroe Doctrine should be invoked to prevent the acquisition...
...story. The treatment sometimes slights the intensely, human and physical aspects of this story. But the lovers are very real people trying to make a hard reality out of the limp texture of their lives. They struggle toward this reality against a violent background of bitterly lively incident. Things happen! There is no pale aesthetic modernism in this attack. In fact, I know of no more vigorous satire on art and art thinking than the scene in a Greenwich Village backyard where poets, press agents, and actresses talk their way to success among cocktails and tea. This man and woman...
...visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next big bee that might happen along would be well received, even if he alighted...