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...reviewing the lectures of today, the Vagabond finds a myriad which he believes would prove, if not interesting, at least not otherwise. But, after all, it is Saturday, and the Vagabond feels, and not without reason, that he must, lie abed in hopes of better times, which incidentally, he expects to accrue to him sometime this afternoon...
...very nature of an educational convention, with its fleeting luncheons and dinners and myriad speeches on everything from the automobile library to the little red schoolhouse, is a denial of sober and detailed consideration of a problem. Likewise doubtful in value are conferences of college and secondary school executives, where partisan speechmaking soon resolves the parley into the polite immobility of a disarmament conference...
...from which to rule, a snug capital round which the mighty Danube bends. Last week he who rules at Belgrade was wrestling with the forces tending to disrupt his realm. He, Alexander I, is a king in name but a little emperor in fact. His people are of a myriad races and sects, including the Mohammedan. Last week His Majesty faced an especially disheartening cabinet crisis...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...
...hideous absurdities but rather a notable form of art. What, then, of Negro literature and folklore? Translator Margery Bianco gives to us in The African Saga, from L'Anthologie Negre of Blaise Cendrars, roving student and compiler, a comprehensive reply to this question. Legends, stories, fables from the myriad families and tongues of Africa have been gathered together and afford ample evidence that the Negro has long enjoyed a charming culture of sorts...