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...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste...
...American Mercury is a publication that comes out once a month in a frog-green cover for 50˘. Its writers push their noses against a cold mirror and squint at the mystical films their misting breaths design. They like to "show up" insipidities. They do so skillfully. But often what they tootle as an insipidity is verily the heart-belief of many honest folk...
...meat indeed. Class prejudice could be stirred up like a muddy puddle. Ignorant and penurious people could be made to feel that they had a grievance. They could be made to hate the "highbrow" Outlook, to distrust the "capitalist" New York World, to scorn Mr. Seitz. The News push-pen jammed a piece of copy-paper in his typewriter, wrote as follows...
Such revelations together with rumors that Premier Bethlen will now try to give a push to a putsch which would raise up the young Prince Otto of Hapsburg as King of Hungary, provided last week one of the major political sensations of the decade since the World...
Naturally it occurred to them to push the ordinary flagellant rites of their order to the last extremes. Despatches carried the following details: "The Abbé was set upon, in the vestry of his church by a crowd of men and women carrying pepper pots and lengths of knotted rope. . . . They threw pepper in his eyes, stripped him as naked as a pair of tongs and bound him to the vestry table...