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...children of Rufus are three-Diana, the eldest, is cold, fascinating, a little cynical, dangles her feet over innumerable precipices, and has always managed to pull them back in time; Claudia, the second daughter, is an instance of war-marriage in haste and equally hasty repentance; the youngest is Sheila, of the jazz...
...fond of reading as Senator Borah, will not forget the experience of that other investigator, Little Red Riding Hood. We do not think that the Soviet Government would eat the senator limb by limb, but we should be much surprised if it did not pull his leg. Lenin and Tchitcher are able and subtle men versed in all the arts of public and private diplomacy...
...late Dr. Rathenau's statement last June: "We pull bodies of suicides out of the river and the canals of Berlin daily, but never one sufficiently clad", summarizes perfectly the material misery. But perhaps worse is the ever increasing moral dissolution. In addition to the impetus bodily misery always gives to moral delinquency, there is that national isolation of thought peculiar to a country which has no sound economic relations with the rest of the world. Germany today cannot afford any foreign newspapers, magazines or books; it can hardly afford to print its own. Such a situation directly affects...
...close of the war, however, the Negro's hopes were suddenly dashed to the ground. Southern newspapers began at once to tell the Negio soldiers that the war was over, and the sooner they forgot it the better. 'Pull off your uniform,' they said, 'find the place you had before the war and stay in it'. 'Act like a Negro should act,' said one newspaper, 'work like a Negro should work. Talk like a Negro should talk. Study like a Negro should study. Dismiss all ideas of independence or of being lifted up to the plane of the white...
...indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked "Good Any Time...