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...beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love right & left...
...River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties into the Gulf of Chihli some 250 miles north. Last week "China's Sorrow" was rising in such terrifying volume that China's greatest flood experts said that they...
Last week President Roosevelt took more positive steps to placate conservative opinion up to Nov. 6. In one day he smiled thrice in a way to captivate the gentlemen of the Right: 1) He denied that he had ever given Upton Sinclair. Mahatma of the West Coast millennium, a promise of any statement in his support (see p. 11). 2) He declared that he was giving no consideration to plans for substituting a central bank for the Federal Reserve System. 3) He went before the American Bankers Association and. after listening to a conciliatory speech by Manhattan Banker Jackson...
With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention. Her audience was friendly but far from enthusiastic when she keynoted: "We cannot expect the Roosevelt Administration or any other Administration to give us the millennium on a silver platter...
What is of concern to us who inhabit the secluded sports of Cambridge is the fact that all possible objection of scheduling a game with the Joliet Zobras has now been removed. The millennium has arrived and the code of fair competition has now been instituted; when will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western...