Word: manning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, On the Forgotten Road...
...Heredity does play a role of paramount importance in making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...
...meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern one evening and at midnight was discovered in a pigsty, cuddling a teakettle and singing at the top of his voice: They said I was a beauty once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts were made to raise him up, he persisted in crying...
...flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father (Benjamin Ayer) was a big man in Chicago's yesterday; her sister is Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (TIME, July 7). Herself a big and breezy woman, she has not been able to get much of her vitality into writing, has taken it out in other ways: she has campaigned for Presidents, for charity, for women's votes...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...