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...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIGHT EYES OF DANGER | 6/3/1924 | See Source »

Harriet Hammond was happily cast as Theresa, and Helen Howe as the Vicaress supplied a very welcome element of humor. The other members of the cast too, were well chosen; they made one wish to see them in a happier vehicle for the display of their talents...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

There has very rarely been a happier ending.' Joyce, in the last chapter, is in a perfect ecstacy. She never does succeed in finding God, but God finds her. Her grandfather understands and forgives. His insulting will cutting her oft is destroyed. The incomparable Lawyer Utrecht, the injustice of the case finally made clear to him, throws it over. He does more. He goes to the extent of marrying Joyce, and, as the last page turns, we are left with the agreeable anticipation of years of idyllic happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Coast of Folly-- | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

Judge went further: " There's nothing that will make the college or prep school boy happier than to have one or both of these stunning pictures for his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Pie | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...quite died in me that into this shell of a League of Nations a better content might yet grow in time. I am comforted by the thought that in my place one of the cleanest, finest men was elected, Professor Lorentz of Haarlem, whereat nobody could be happier than I. May the League in the future prove my harsh words to have been false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jul. 9, 1923 | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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