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...said that, of 400,000 persons examined by the organization in twelve years, not one perfect physique had been found. "More than 60 per cent, of those examined," he said, "have been found in need of some important medical attention, and practically all have required some modification in their mode of living...
...Newton is master of a conversational mode of address that would have delighted his learned and loquacious hero, Dr. Samuel Johnson. His discourse upon the typographical history of the Bible is no more pedantic than his bubbling monolog on Gilbert and Sullivan (in which it occurs to him that "we get lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious...
...clippings, from full-page feature pages to two-inch news-items-ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR up to date and more still coming." Appended was a list of the newspapers which had already subscribed for the daily editorial together with statement-made in strict accordance with the U. S. mode of measuring a man by his earning capacity-of the fees received by Editor Frank-once $50 a lecture-now $500. "His fees for one average month totaled...
There were hearty handshakes, clammy as trout, warm as buns. Old friends wandered among the exhibits, admired the ultimate mode in funeral shoes, the suavest cuts in cemetery suitings, the 1926 coffins. They strolled off to dinner, exchanging views on the smoothing of an eyelid, the powdering of a nose, the arrangement of hands and what is the finest angle for a head...
...Love. Most significant, most discouraging was the Actors' Theatre production of John Galsworthy's A Bit o' Love. It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy. No surer example of the justice of this attitude has recently appeared. Mr. Galsworthy has attempted an emotional justification of Christian Faith. His curate hero has recently lost his wife in the ancient thicket of infidelity. He turns the other cheek and refuses to chastise the offending male. He refuses even to make a fuss about it and injure that unworthy's reputation as a rising doctor...