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...wished to marry her, pinning their photographs to the paper, and asked me which to choose--those are examples out of literally hundreds that linger in my conscious or subconscious memory. And on the other hand, what a delightful lass was she who defined aesthetic as "something to kill cats with," and illustrated her definition by the sentence "We gave the cat an aesthetic." --New Republic...
...injury. Today only a few points of aggressive honor remain. Why is it? Partly, of course, because we have learned to let the law right our wrongs. But our law provides no redress for sheer insults and forbids a man, assailed by a murderer, to stand his ground and kill if he can safely retreat. Europe, however, sanctions duelling and standing ground...
Finally, we are told that "democracy demands a general referendum before a declaration of war." And what is to happen to us while the referendum vote is being taken? In the present controversy Germany could continue to kill our people, to sink our ships, could send submarines into our harbors while we peacefully prepared to vote, telling her to be careful since we might vote against allowing her to continue. What a disappointment such a vote would be to Germany! How hurt she would feel to have her fun stopped! It might even make her angry...
Germany and England wish to blockade each other. That is none of our business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...
...Boston theatre going public may well now kill the fatted calf, since "Pierrot the Prodigal" has returned after an all too long absence, and once again is this jewel of French pantomime to be seen at the Hollis St. Theatre. In an age of such thoroughness of stage production and action as the present, where hardly a thing is left to the imagination of the audience, the reappearance of this play can be nothing but a great stimulant to everyone. Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things...